How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?

[uunet!bria!mike]

In an article, clegg at tolsun.oulu.fi (Matthew Tran Clegg/VTT) writes:
>I've been working on a program that uses the curses package and
>cbreak mode.  Once in a while, a bug will cause the program to
>crash (for example, with a segmentation fault).  This completely
>unhinges the terminal.  It won't respond to anything anymore,
>except if I press ^C, then the csh prompt will be printed.

When your terminal is in a good mood, enter the following command:

	stty -g >$HOME/.stty

Then, put an alias in your $HOME/.profile (or whatever), such as:

	sane() stty `cat $HOME/.stty`

Obviously this is for the Bourne shell; translate as appropriate for
csh, or whatever you prefer to use. 

So, when nethack bites the dust, you enter:

	$ sane^J

This will restore your terminal exactly the way it was when you first
entered the 'stty -g' command.
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