Bizarre terminal behavior

Patton Echols p.echols at comcast.net
Thu Dec 8 08:37:02 UTC 2011


Greetings all,

Tonight I opened a terminal session and used [ctrl]+r to search a prior 
command. When I keyed the first letter, the terminal window was filled 
with the characters below. I had to [ctrl]+c to return to normal usage. 
Any thoughts?

Oh, 10.4, on an asus netbook

Here is the characters copied and pasted from the terminal window:

patton at mycroft:~$
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