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When accidentally doing a :<br>
<tt>cat /bin/somefile_binary</tt><br>
you can end up with a "broken terminal". The binary
file may possibly contain characters that put a terminal into
a mode where the output becomes unreadable. To put the terminal
back to normal you can type <br>
<tt>/bin/echo -ne "\017" </tt>
<br>To make it easier you can put this into a small shell script and call it kscreen.
When your terminal is again in this funny mode you just type blindly
kscreen and it is back to normal.