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From: sansom@trwrb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: clearing the screen
Message-ID: <1664@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 23:19:59 EST
Article-I.D.: trwrb.1664
Posted: Wed Mar 11 23:19:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 07:26:21 EST
References: <13873@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: sansom@trwrb.UUCP (Richard Sansom)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <13873@cca.CCA.COM> m204help@cca.CCA.COM (Keith Hedger) writes:
>Does one have to open a window to clear the desktop ? Is there an escape
>sequence I can pump out of my program ? 

I believe that all *.TOS programs will clear the screen for you.  If this
isn't so with Megamax, then you can clear the screen using the vt52 escape
sequence ESC-E (that's Cconws("\033E") in Atari-ese ;-).

-Rich

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