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From: mark@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ^D becomes ^L on my VAX Console?
Message-ID: <637@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Nov-83 05:08:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 12 05:08:26 1983
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Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA
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I've seen this but it's nothing to do with the console driver.
I have a .logout file which calls "clear".  The problem is in
"clear" or possibly the "tgetstr" routine of termcap.

When the termcap entry doesn't contain a "cl" string instead of
exiting gracefully "clear" sends whatever happens to be in its
buffer which frequently seems to contain a ^L.

Since I rarely use the console I never bothered to fix it.

		Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA
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