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1.1       root        1: .TH RESET 1 "18 July 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: reset \- reset the teletype bits to a sensible state
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B reset
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Reset
                      9: sets the terminal to cooked mode, turns off cbreak and raw modes,
                     10: turns on nl, and restores special characters that are undefined
                     11: to their default values.
                     12: .PP
                     13: This is most useful after a program dies leaving a terminal in a funny
                     14: state; you have to type ``<LF>reset<LF>'' to get it to work then to the
                     15: shell, as <CR> often doesn't work; often none of this will echo.
                     16: .PP
                     17: It is a good idea to follow
                     18: .I reset
                     19: with
                     20: .IR tset (1)
                     21: .SH SEE ALSO
                     22: stty(1), tset(1)
                     23: .SH BUGS
                     24: Doesn't set tabs properly; it can't intuit personal choices for interrupt
                     25: and line kill characters, so it leaves these set to the local system
                     26: standards.

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