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Sometimes I think this happens to me when I accidentally `cat` binary files! It's particularly interesting that people used to add such strange features as "aut
by kacbskjbc 8y ago
Sometimes I think this happens to me when I accidentally `cat` binary files! It's particularly interesting that people used to add such strange features as "automatic file transfer" to their terminals.
- segfaultbuserr 8y agoand the solution to this problem is still > to suspend the program and hope they could blind-type out a "reset". I find myself doing it a few times in a month, sometimes because of accidentally catting binary garbage, other time it was became a ncurses program crashed without resetting the terminal back to the normal mode. Next time I'll remember to call it "getting flashed". Unfortuately, ESR hasn't curated the Jargon File since 2002, and this word was not included. AFAIK, Bob Mottram maintains his own fork of Jargon File, https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile. I should request him to add the definition into the file.
- segfaultbuserr 8y agoUpdate: added https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile/src/652aff1386b37f5dd333d4d0e88e9090f97244c9/entries/flash.txt https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile/src/652aff...
- dfox 8y agoThe assumption behind things like automatic file transfer is that the terminal is slave device to whatever computer it is attached to and the computer is fully trusted. This view breaks down when random other users can spew arbitrary binary garbage ont the connection.