Accidentally Cat'ed an exe ??

**Mzzbizzsnatch** · 09-04-2003

I accidentally catted a exe file and my screen and command line turned to garberlee gok.

How do I recover from this without rebooting?

Thanks,

**Hellmasker** · 09-04-2003

either wait it out... not sute how long it will take

press ctrl+c

**bmxface** · 09-04-2003

was it an accident or just curiosity :P ....was this in a GUI?

**siddhartha** · 09-04-2003

just type reset and press enter, this will enable your console again

**Mzzbizzsnatch** · 09-09-2003

This was soley and accident.

I wanted to look at the contents of what I thought was a config file and it wasn't.

Thanks,

I wonder why I didn't get an update for his posting when the first person replied..?

Oh-well...

**andutt** · 09-09-2003

You can use the command

Code:

strings <filename>

To see the readeble text in compiled programs

**Mzzbizzsnatch** · 09-09-2003

Thanks Andutt

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