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.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
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.TH RESET 1 "10 October 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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reset \- reset the terminal
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR reset
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B reset
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calls
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.BR tput (1)
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with the
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.IR clear , rmacs , rmm , rmul , rs1 , rs2 ", and " rs3
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arguments. This causes
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.B tput
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to send appropriate reset strings to the terminal based on information in
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.I /etc/termcap
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(for the GNU or BSD
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.BR tput )
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or in the terminfo database
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(for the
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.B ncurses
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.BR tput ).
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This sequence seems to be sufficient to reset the Linux VC's when they
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start printing "funny-looking" characters. For good measure,
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.BR stty (1)
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is called with the
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.I sane
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argument in an attempt to get cooked mode back.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR clear (1),
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.BR stty (1),
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.BR tput (1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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