Cygwin X server 'reset' command
Thomas Dickey
dickey@his.com
Mon Aug 20 22:00:00 GMT 2007
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using the Xterm that ships with Cygwin.
I forget ("xterm -v" would show the patch level), but Cygwin's got a
moderately old xterm. See
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
for details on xterm's versions.
> When I connect by ssh to a host running Linux, I can run the
> 'reset' command on that host to clear my xterm and erase its backscroll
> history.
...sounds right
> However, when I am not logged onto a host and execute the 'reset'
> command locally, it seems to have no effect.
...sounds as if $TERM isn't set properly
>
> In a console-mode bash prompt (cygwin.bat), same behaviour, but I
> have noticed executing the command 'cmd /c cls' works in this case but
> not in the graphical xterm.
>
> Although it is not a big problem, I am curious; is there a way to
> clear the backscroll buffer? The 'clear' command does clear the current
> screen but not the entire history.
"reset" should behave the same (on the regular cygwin list there's more
likelihood that you'd get an answer for this).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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