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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix clear screen function..
Message-ID: <25CFA32B.1493@marob.masa.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 04:25:14 GMT
References: <153@mnopltd.UUCP> <4185@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
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In article <4185@helios.TAMU.EDU> jfrench@photon.UUCP (Jeff French) writes:
>In article <153@mnopltd.UUCP> gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal writes:
>>->Does my Xenix '286 ver. 2.1.1 have a "clear screen" funtion that I am
>>->overlooking? Under MS/DOS the command is "cls", and on SunOS it's "clear".
>>try 'tput clear'... wasn't that obvious?...
>The problem is that ver 2.1.1 doesn't support "tput". It is not an option
>from the command line of any shell I've tried. 

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.

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Dave Hammond
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