.TH RESET 1 "18 January 1983"
reset \- reset the teletype bits to a sensible state
sets the terminal to cooked mode, turns off cbreak and raw modes,
turns on nl, and restores special characters that are undefined
This is most useful after a program dies leaving a terminal in a funny
state; you have to type ``<LF>reset<LF>'' to get it to work then to the
shell, as <CR> often doesn't work; often none of this will echo.
It isn't a bad idea to follow
Doesn't set tabs properly; it can't intuit personal choices for interrupt
and line kill characters, so it leaves these the old UNIX standards
^? (delete) for interrupt and @ for line kill.
It could well be argued that the shell should be responsible for insuring
that the terminal remains in a sane state; this would eliminate the