Re: [aclug-L] drive mounting

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 03:09:53PM -0600, jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> It was a .hlp file.  I had thought those were basically ascii with
> formatting, but it wouldn't print.  Anyway, last night I simply cp'd a text

Nope, not ASCII at all.  Proprietary MS format, binary-based, perhaps with
some compression thrown in to muddle things up a bit more.

> file over to the floppy and it is readable.  As for the display, it was in
> bash at the command line, not in x.  I had understood that reset fixed the
> display if one tried to read a binary file.  It looked like Klingonese
> after reading the help file.  :)
> 
> Thanks for the response, Bob.
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> Jeff
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> bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx on 11/18/98 08:06:59 AM
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> Please respond to aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject:  Re: [aclug-L] drive mounting
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> jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Well folks, here's the next installment of dumb questions from me.  After
> > getting the floppy and cdrom to mount and subsequently cd'ing to one or
> the
> > other and getting an ls of the root, why does cat fail to list anything
> > usable from an ascii file?  It gorked my display to the point that reset
> > couldn't fix it.  Any suggestions?
> It really was not an ascii file would be my guess...  Some times it is
> hard to tell from the directory listing what kind of file it is...  I
> assume too, that you are *not* talking about a X windows based
> display...
> Does anybody know how to clean up and re-start your terminal display w/o
> having to log back in?
> -= bob =-
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