Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!terryl From: terryl@tekchips.UUCP () Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Will The Offender Please Stop! Message-ID: <130@tekchips.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 00:51:08 EDT Article-I.D.: tekchips.130 Posted: Thu Sep 27 00:51:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:23:48 EDT References: <1071@orca.UUCP> Lines: 21 >For the last 3 days I have read articles in net.jokes which have caused >my Ann Arbor Ambassador's screen to go blank. The cursor tracks >everything but nothing is printed. The only lines I can get from these >articles is the Article number and the Subject. The two that caused >problems today were titled " . . . more lightbulbs . . ." and "Re: Re: >Real Programmers". They were submitted on Monday (9/24/85) at 14:27. >Would the person who is sending these strange characters please stop; >or could someone help me find a way to solve the problem on my end. I too have found this to happen to me (I have an Ann Arbor Genie). What's happening is that someone's sick idea of a joke is to put an(you know, ascii code 033, ^[, alias escape, [ etc.) AT THE END OF A LINE. I haven't looked at my manual to find out what that escape sequence does, but the only cure I have found that works (short of powering the terminal off/on) is to hit -SHIFT-RESET. That's , SHIFT, and RESET all at the same time. Don't know if it will work for all Ann Arbor terminals, but it does work for a Genie. So Dr. Dart, you are not hallucinating, and that's the cure for your malady.