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Re:The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes by clausecker on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:23PM (#42045650)
This stuff sucks because if the application forgets to turn it back off, the terminal pukes random control characters into your shell every time the window is resized.
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Re:The history of Unix's ioctl and signal about window sizes by mrlonglong on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:43PM (#42045801)
That's what `reset` is so useful for.
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