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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix clear screen function..
Summary: try this on the ansi console
Message-ID: <5677@holston.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 17:51:46 GMT
References: <153@mnopltd.UUCP> <4185@helios.TAMU.EDU> <25CFA32B.1493@marob.masa.com>
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In article <25CFA32B.1493@marob.masa.com>, daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
> In article <4185@helios.TAMU.EDU> jfrench@photon.UUCP (Jeff French) writes:
> >In article <153@mnopltd.UUCP> gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal writes:
> 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.
> 
On the ansi console it's easier to just enter echo "\f\c". This
can be put into a script called clear in /usr/bin and
should clear the screen and move the cursor home. I used this on
my old version of xenix 2.1.
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