Re: Possible virus??? I have gibberish all over the screen. My keystrokes contain gibberish and what is returned after my commands is also gibberish

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 03/22/05

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:39:46 -0600

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:22:18 -0500, MLH wrote:
>
> Suppose I was uncertain whether
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config was a binary file.
> Maybe I think its a text file and want to
> look at it to see what's in it. But - now I
> am afraid to run the cat command on it

Use less instead of cat. Then there is the commnad _file_, Examples:

file /sbin/hdparm
file /usr/bin/less