unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

[Illia Bobyr]

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.
>

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