09:04:26 <nikolam> tsoome_,  echho -e gives a new line ,  ctrl-v esc  gives ^[
09:34:10 <tsoome_> ye, your goal is to output sequence ESC and c - that should reset the terminal.
09:36:57 <nikolam> still question marks afterwards 
09:37:33 <tsoome_> is it gnu (df? was it?)
10:03:44 <nikolam>  /bin/df -h gives meaningful output. which df / /opt/local/bin/df gives questionmarks
13:04:44 <tsoome_> ok so /opt/local/bin/df is likely gnu version - could it be colored output? try env NO_COLOR=true /opt/local/bin/df otherwise, send its output to file, confirm the ? marks are still in faile (cat file) and mail me the sample, lets see what is actually going on there...