From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T02:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to clear the contents of a terminal?

On Jan 4, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Ross Bamford wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:00:45 -0000, Steve Litt  
> <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 09:10 am, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 04:07 am, John Maclean wrote:
>>> > I should've made myself clearer. Is there a way to do this via  
>>> a ruby
>>> > command?
>>>
>>> print 12.to_s
>>
>> Dooohhhhh. This would have printed "12". What I needed some sort  
>> of equivalent
>> of Pascal chr().
>>
>
> IIRC ASCII 0x0C is form-feed, right. Doesn't Ruby support "\f"?  
> (seems to).
> But I don't think it'll clear the terminal, will it?

Correct on all accounts.  :)

James Edward Gray II