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orbita wrote:
> 
> hi, 
> I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a
> tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I
> can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore.
> 
> All I could do is close that window and open another cygwin session.
> 
> Can anybody help?

Try typing "reset" or "stty sane" (without the quotes) and pressing
Enter. You won't see what you're typing, but after the shell should work
again.

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