Re: terminal weirdness?

[Crispin Cowan <crispin () WIREX COM>]

Blue Boar wrote:

> OK, so now can someone tell me why doing a more on binary files
> often leaves me sitting in ed?

This is a bit speculative, but ... I've cat'd & more'd binary files on occasion,
and as a result had commands that I didn't type get issued to the shell.  I assume
that what's happening is that certain control codes cause the VT100 (or
whatever) to echo text as if it had been typed on the keyboard.

Crispin

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