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From: robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek)
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Subject: Re: How do you NOT write a <RETURN>? (was:ring bell in DCL file)?
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 14:40:04 EDT
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In article <102@blic.BLI.COM>, garvey@blic.BLI.COM (Robert Garvey) writes:
> 
> This is an example of how that could be done:
> 	$ 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.)
-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721