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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CLR SCREEN
Message-ID: <1627@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 24 May 90 01:44:09 GMT
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In <956@tau.sm.luth.se>, d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) writes:
>In article <940@tau.sm.luth.se> d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman) writes:
>>
>>The solution to that *problem* is so simple it is almost embarassing...(?)
>>
>>alias clear echo "^L" noline
>>
>>Of course, shell 1.3 is needed for that. This doesn't take up 128 bytes, BTW.
>
>It depends... If I dont have a shellstartup file that alias will
>cost me 1 block on the WB disk, which leads to the conclusion that as long
>as if is SMALLER than ~500 bytes it'll be no difference the 128 byte prog
>and the alias.

If that alias is done in the startup-sequence, it will not cost you a block.

-larry

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