Console Characters Messed up

[Tac-Tics]

Hi. I've noticed a problem(?) with using Bash. Sometimes after printing out a binary filie or tcpdumping binary content, certain characters on the console change to extended ASCII characters and it looks really messed up. This happens on both actual consoles and Xterm and `clear` doesn't seem to do anything to help it. Can anyone inform me why this happens and how I can rectify it (other than by not cat'ing binary files? =-)

[lugoteehalt]

Think you simply type reset if recall correctly. It does not show on the screen but when <return> is done the screen should come normal again.

Hope works.:)

[Tac-Tics]

Thanks alot! It worked! No more having to reset the console =-)

[DerekKraan]

Isn't that what you're doing when you enter that command?;)

[Tac-Tics]

I meant the *hard* way =-(