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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: screen clears in emphasize mode
Message-ID: <13676@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Aug 90 19:12:42 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.152155.157@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Aug28.152155.157@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
>Let's say I send the command for reverse video mode, and then
>the sequence for a screen clear.  Is it typical for terminals
>to clear the screen to normal-mode spaces or reverse video spa-
>ces?  The reason I ask is that, for terminals which permit it,
>the so+cl approach is the quickest and most reliable to cover
>the screen in reverse video.

The clear-display capability is supposed to clear the display to background,
not foreground.  The inverse-video capability is supposed to affect display
of subsequent space-occupying characters, not cleared fields etc.