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From: brothers@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (bill brothers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix clear screen function..
Message-ID: <873@jetsun.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 90 18:26:49 GMT
References: <153@mnopltd.UUCP> <4185@helios.TAMU.EDU> <25CFA32B.1493@marob.masa.com> <251@microm.UUCP>
Reply-To: brothers@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (bill brothers)
Organization: WEITEK, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <251@microm.UUCP> brad@microm.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher) writes:
>In article <25CFA32B.1493@marob.masa.com>, daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>> 
>> On the console screen only, you can echo a Control-L to clear the screen
>> and move the cursor home.
>> 
>> Alternatively, on the console and other ANSI terminals (vt100, vt220, ...)
>> you can echo the 6 char sequence ESC [ H ESC [ J to clear the screen
>> and move the cursor home.

The "right :*) way is using termcap/info"... Here is a bitty  pgm for
that...



extern char *getenv();
extern char *tgetstr();

main()
{
	char buf[1024], a[1024], *area;
	area = a;

	tgetent( buf, getenv("TERM") );
	printf("%s", tgetstr("cl", &area) );
}


There but the grace of god go i...

Bill
brothers@weitek.com