Re: How do I UNsuppress output on the terminal?

[Markus Mützel]

Am 22. Februar 2021 um 19:54 Uhr schrieb "Gary Schafer":
> I'm running Gnu Octave 6.1.0 on Windows 10. I'm trying to parse out a data 
> file. When I attempted to see if some of the data was ASCII, I put it into a 
> "char" statement. After that, all of the output on the terminal is 
> suppressed. However, I need that output. Is there something I did with the 
> "char" command that may have suppressed the output? It's quite possible that 
> any of the possible ASCII values, from 0 - 255, when into that statement. 
> I've tried re-entering the command (hoping it would toggle the terminal 
> output back on), but it didn't work.

That sounds to me like you are hit by one of the following bugs:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?59495
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?56224

Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to restore the command window 
(besides restarting Octave) because the conhost process which is used for the 
command window on Windows has crashed.
I'm hoping that this will no longer be an issue if or when the command window 
widget has been replaced with a cross-platform implementation. See:
https://octave.discourse.group/t/new-command-window-widget/501/17

If I understood correctly, jwe already did some preparatory changes for this on 
the development branch. So maybe it could be ready for Octave 7.

For the moment, try to avoid entering non-ASCII characters in the command 
window on Windows (running a script containing valid(!) non-ASCII characters 
seems to be fine afaict).

Another workaround might be to only use the bytes of your byte stream that 
might actually be ASCII text:
A;  % a variable containing a byte stream
char(A(A>31 & A < 128))

Hope this is still helpful
Markus