Xenix clear screen function..

[bill brothers]

In article <4174 at helios.TAMU.EDU> jfrench at cssuN.tamu.edu (Jeff French) 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".
>
>Currently I have a script that cats an empty file to the screen. This works
>but leaves the cursor in the lower left hand corner of the screen.
>
>I have RTFM 'till I'm blue in the face. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Please excuse my ignorance if their is a blatently simple solution.  Thanks!
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>    jfrench at cssuN.tamu.edu       Jeff French        "Gig-Em Aggies"
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Jeff,
couldn't make my mailer talk to you... Here is a quick pgm to fix your
problem. clear wasn't shipped on XENIX until 2.2...


extern char *getenv();
extern char *tgetstr();

main()
{
	char buf[1024], a[1024], *area;
	area = a;

	tgetent( buf, getenv("TERM") );
	printf("%s", tgetstr("cl", &area) );
}

Bill
brothers at weitek.COM