From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T23:08:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to clear the contents of a terminal?

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 01:49 am, John Maclean wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
>
> MATLAB uses cls, in a bash shell I'd use clear. Is there a way to clear the
> contents of a terminal -safely-?

In the UMENU program, I do this:

puts "\n" * 24

Crude, but effective, and has the advantage of being totally portable -- even 
on an ancient teletype terminal. If you use different terminal resolutions, 
then it would be

print "\n" * lines_per_screen

SteveT


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