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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: VT200 in Uniterm
Message-ID: <246@obie.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 88 15:58:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: obie.246
References: <910003@acf5.NYU.EDU> <278@forty2.UUCP>
Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch
Lines: 23
Summary: VT100 screen-clear `feature'

> In article <910003@acf5.NYU.EDU> mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes:
> If I send the string ESC[?3l the screened will be set to the 80 column mode
> 	and the screen will be erased. 
> The screen will be erased even if originaly was in 80 column mode.

In article <278@forty2.UUCP>, poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) replies:
% This is the correct behaviour (I just rechecked on this terminal, an original
% VT100)......

Exactly right.  I'd be upset if it didn't work this; the first line in
my login.com file on every VMS account I have is:

$ cls :== set terminal /width=80

to clear the screen.  It doesn't work on some cheap VT100 clones, like
the C. Itoh CIT-101.
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