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04-04-2013

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Quote:

Originally Posted by wisecracker

Assuming it's the terminal only then it looks as though you are in 8bit _extended_ASCII_.

These are the characters that display when a SERIAL link is set up and bit 8 of the ASCII character set is set to 1.
Try and set your encodings back to default using the terminal preferences or another means.

The gibberish decodes as:-

<Your 'OPENSSH' connection has terminated>

When the top bit is removed...

Hope this helps...

Bazza

Assuming this is what happened, the command:

Code:

stty sane

may get you back to where you want to be. Don't worry that it will look like gibberish when it echoes the command as you enter it; just make sure that you are at your primary command prompt when you enter this command.

Note, however, that if this was the problem, logging out and back in should have corrected it.

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NAME

       network-admin - Network Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       network-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       network-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       network-admin allows you to specify the way your system connects to other computers and to the Internet.

OPTIONS

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       network-admin also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       network-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), shares-admin(1), time-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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