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Terminal messed up.
Authored by: bluehz on Sep 13, '02 12:14:51AM

Paul - I don't know the solution to your problem, but I can tell you I have been stumped more than once with odd behaviour like this - not exactly what you are getting - but odd nevertheless. I have always found that its usually a syntax error in one of my files. I am real bad about leaving off the closing single-quote on my aliases and that tends to cause some oddities. Problem is you can;t track the problem down so easy. I would suggest you go back into the last few term type files you edited and double check your syntax - dot your i's, etc. If you aren't real strong in recognizing a syntax error then just comment out (place a # at the start of each line) the new stuff you added and slowly add it back in a little at a time. Eventually you will enable just the line that causes the problem and then you can zero in on the solution. Hope that helps.



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