Xenix clear screen function..

Bradley W. Fisher brad at microm.UUCP
Sat Feb 10 05:19:46 AEST 1990


In article <25CFA32B.1493 at marob.masa.com>, daveh at 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.

echo "\f"  works too if your TERM variable is set right.
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