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From: u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek)
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Subject: Re: How do you NOT write a <RETURN>? (was:ring bell in DCL file)?
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Date: Sun, 3-May-87 21:12:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 21:12:25 1987
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In article <1680@megaron.arizona.edu>
robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek) writes:
>> 	$ clear == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT esc_chr,""[H"",esc_chr,""[2J"""
>I have been using the above type of statements to do clear screens, but
>they really leave the cursor on the second row since there is a
><return> effectively at the end of the write sys$output.
>Is there someway around that?  (In Unix echo -n does the job.)

Try: Set Terminal/Width=80