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Re: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, kunglao at prairienet dot org
- Subject: Re: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?
- From: "Hmmmz" <alex! at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:31:31 -0800
<SNIP>
> With the new /etc/termcap from b18, I do an "export TERM=linux"
> in bash, and then hit a control-l to clear.
>
> Under Windows NT, the right thing happens. Under Windows 95, however
> I see the behavior kunglao@prairienet.org reports where the
> prompt is moved but the old text doesn't get erased.
Umm, this is great if you're just in bash, but what about programs
that try to clear the screen like say NcFTP? And why did this
work in B17.x?
> --
> Geoffrey Noer
> noer@cygnus.com
WinNT and *nix rule, so learn from the past:
Hiroshima '45, Vietnam '64, Tjernobyl '86, MacOS '96
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