Hyper: Running cat on a PDF results in garbled characters

[marcus-crane]

Running cat on some PDFs results in characters being garbled until Hyperterm is restarted. Definitely not high priority but still interesting anyway.

The characters are valid in that you can still type commands and run them so it's purely a visual issue.

I'm going to assume this is related to Hyperterm and not cat itself since I don't have any other terminals to test at the moment. I haven't had the same issue with the regular OS X terminal

[cjb]

Same issue with any terminal. It's an ANSI escape sequence that switches to a graphics mode. reset fixes it.

[marcus-crane]

Oooh, that's actually really interesting! I'll have to have a look into that.

[albinekb]

Why would you cat a pdf? 💭

[marcus-crane]

Why wouldn't you!

Haha, I was bored on the train this morning (with no WiFi) and I just started using cat on my Documents folder. Y'know, stuff that it isn't intended to be used on just to see what would happen.

I didn't realise it was an ANSI thing though since the regular OSX Terminal didn't give me the same issue.