Clear Screen

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:

> On 1 December 2010 21:24, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> By the way, the clearing of the screen on ctrl/L is not done by xterm.
>> (PuTTY does this, in case you're mistaking it for xterm, otherwise
>> I'd assume bash is doing it).
>
> Yep, bash sends '\e[2J' when ^L is pressed. PuTTY's behaviour of
> interpreting ^L as formfeed is due to its SCOANSI mode being enabled
> by default. (Strange that the VT100 interpreted ^L, which of course is
> ASCII formfeed, as linefeed instead.)

yes - it used to be that only printers did form-feeds, and terminals did 
not.  See my comment about a "repaginator" here:

http://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html

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Thomas E. Dickey
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