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From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: beginner's stupid question
Message-ID: <3610@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 May 89 00:00:36 GMT
Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
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        I'm a freshman EE major here at the U of Delaware, taking my first      course in Modula 2.  It seems to be a decent language (of course, my only       previous language experience was in BASIC on a c-128 & a little LISP last       semester, so ANY language seems decent to me at this point).
	I generally have no problem doing the programming assignments we're     given (although I do spend a heckuvalotta time removing parsing errors), most ofwhich just consist of reading in & manipulating records in various ways.        Anyway, one thing I've been trying to do all semester, just to 'spruce up' the  screen output, is to CLEAR the %^&$%$%^ SCREEN from modula!!!  
	So far, I've had no luck.  I've tried messing around with IMPORT        @EXTERNAL (like in the unix.def file) clear, but really had no idea how IMPORT  @EXT works, so I had no luck.
	Is there some way to print a control character or ASCII code that will  clear the screen?  Can somebody come up with a relatively simple, short method  of clearing the screen and explain it to me (mail it)?  I absolutely despise    programs that don't clear the screen when I run them (for the most part).

	By the way, I'm using the 'mod' compiler on a vax under unix 4.3.


	Thanks,


------------------      Don Lloyd
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