Clear screen (system call)
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tif at doorstop.austin.ibm.com
Sat Jun 16 08:25:33 AEST 1990
In article <5683 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> trw at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Weil timothy) writes:
> what is a simple 'C' Unix system call for clearing
> the terminal. my guess is that it's buried somewhere
> in curses.h...
No (correct) answer will consist of just a system call but
If that's all you intend to do (and you're not doing it every 2 seconds):
system("tput clear"); /* this assumes a terminfo system */
Anything else doesn't fit the description of "simple".
Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM tif at doorstop, sc30661 at ausvm6
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