From b13154de3eca5ba28fbb4854d916cd0be5febeed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Igor Pashev Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:15:39 +0400 Subject: Imported Upstream version 2.22 --- term-utils/reset.1 | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 term-utils/reset.1 (limited to 'term-utils/reset.1') diff --git a/term-utils/reset.1 b/term-utils/reset.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fdf67e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/term-utils/reset.1 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License +.TH RESET 1 "October 1993" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +reset \- reset the terminal +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BR reset +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B reset +calls +.BR tput (1) +with the +.IR clear , +.IR rmacs , +.IR rmm , +.IR rmul , +.IR rs1 , +.IR rs2 , +and +.I rs3 +arguments. This causes +.B tput +to send appropriate reset strings to the terminal based on information in +.I /etc/termcap +(for the GNU or BSD +.BR tput ) +or in the terminfo database +(for the +.B ncurses +.BR tput ). +This sequence seems to be sufficient to reset the Linux VC's when they +start printing "funny-looking" characters. For good measure, +.BR stty (1) +is called with the +.I sane +argument in an attempt to get cooked mode back. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR clear (1), +.BR stty (1), +.BR tput (1) +.SH AUTHOR +Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.SH AVAILABILITY +The reset command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. -- cgit v1.2.3