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1 | .\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| 2 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
| 232dc924 | 3 | .TH RESET 1 "October 1993" "util-linux" "User Commands" |
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4 | .SH NAME |
| 5 | reset \- reset the terminal | |
| 6 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| fd6b7a7f | 7 | .BR reset |
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8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 9 | .B reset | |
| 10 | calls | |
| 11 | .BR tput (1) | |
| 12 | with the | |
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13 | .IR clear , |
| 14 | .IR rmacs , | |
| 15 | .IR rmm , | |
| 16 | .IR rmul , | |
| 17 | .IR rs1 , | |
| 18 | .IR rs2 , | |
| 19 | and | |
| 20 | .I rs3 | |
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21 | arguments. This causes |
| 22 | .B tput | |
| 23 | to send appropriate reset strings to the terminal based on information in | |
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24 | .I /etc/termcap |
| 25 | (for the GNU or BSD | |
| 26 | .BR tput ) | |
| 27 | or in the terminfo database | |
| 28 | (for the | |
| 29 | .B ncurses | |
| 30 | .BR tput ). | |
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31 | This sequence seems to be sufficient to reset a Linux VC when it |
| 32 | starts printing "funny-looking" characters. For good measure, | |
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33 | .BR stty (1) |
| 34 | is called with the | |
| 35 | .I sane | |
| 36 | argument in an attempt to get cooked mode back. | |
| 37 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| fd6b7a7f | 38 | .BR clear (1), |
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39 | .BR stty (1), |
| 40 | .BR tput (1) | |
| 41 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 42 | Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
| 86d62711 | 43 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 44 | The reset command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 45 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |