Xenix clear screen function..

Scott Amspoker scott at bbxsda.UUCP
Thu Feb 8 03:33:45 AEST 1990


In article <25CFA32B.1493 at marob.masa.com> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>In article <4185 at helios.TAMU.EDU> jfrench at photon.UUCP (Jeff French) writes:
>>In article <153 at 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.

Well, I'm sitting here with a Xenix 386 ver 2.3.1 and it has a 'clear'
command that works just fine.

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