[oclug] Terminal beeing corrupted by my software

[psaz at rogers.com]

Hey guys.

I wrote up some software to quickly display the contents of
blocks on the hard drive (for data retreival). I've
attempted some quick filters to try and weed out binary
blocks, but they arent alwlays sucessful. 

In any case, usually, when a binary block is displayed, the
whole character set of my terminal is corrupted. No letters
are displayed anymore...usually they are replaced with
members of the extended ascii character set.

I have to logout and log back in to restore the character
set.


I can live with the bug, I'm just curious what could
corrupt the character set like that. In some cases it even
disables my number pade (numlock stops responding also).

The program is perl based, and basicall spits out the contents of blocks on the hard drive.

System is RH 7.1

Thanks

Pierre

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