My 'ls' is all messed up?!

[Parv]

in message <20050116171502.GA8764 at anarchy.primalinsanity.com>,
wrote villain thusly...
>
> 
> This happened today for unknown reasons:
> 
> root# cd /etc ; ls
> X11/      disktab       localtime     netstart*   phones                       remote
> aliases@    dumpdates   locate.rc     network.subr              ppp/            resolv.conf
> aliases.db   fbtab      login.access   networks   printcap              rmt@
> amd.map     fstab       login.conf    newsyslog.conf            profile         rpc
...

Happens sometimes to me when some characters from a binary file are
displayed on the screen as is.   Or, some other stty(1) setting.

Typing reset/tset(1) or closing-and-/opening another xterm(1) works
for me.  Xterm i say for that i use most than console.


  - Parv

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