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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:27:13 -0800
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Subject: Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'
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Illia Bobyr wrote:
> On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Would you, please, elaborate on this a little bit?
> Maybe a link or a reference that explains why this is happening?

I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know why it is happening. I just know how to
recover from it as a user.

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