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> This meant we needed to write a quick shell script to loop from 0 to 255 and try to output to screen the ASCII representation [...] The computer locked-up and
by raldi 13y ago
> This meant we needed to write a quick shell script to loop from 0 to 255 and try to output to screen the ASCII representation [...] The computer locked-up and we needed to hard-reset it
That sounds like you echoed a Ctrl-S character, which tells a terminal to stop updating; the opposite command is Ctrl-Q, but since that came earlier in your sequence rather than later, you were out of luck.
Try reversing the for-loop next time!
- zokier 13y agoOr do the sensible thing and print only printable characters.
- raldi 13y agoNah; with these old machines, often an "unprintable character" would turn out to be the only way to get a "é" or a "¢".
- NoodleIncident 13y agoI learned this tidbit when I got tired of having to kill tmux panes whenever I fat-fingered my 'alt-tab' key combo, C-a C-s. Felt pretty stupid when I found out that it was that simple...