| .\" 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 a Linux VC when it |
| starts 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/. |
