From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T03:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a way to clear the contents of a terminal?

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:51:22 -0000, James Edward Gray II  
<james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

> 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.  :)
>

Wow, can't believe I remembered that... Now if only I could retain the  
_useful_ stuff :D

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk