On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:21 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I installed FC2 for the first time today. I had been using FC1 and > enjoying it until things started messing up and performing operations as > root kept causing the PC to freeze up. Performing operations as root often does. > I have a question: The 'reset' command in FC1 completely cleared the > terminal window and gave a fresh shell prompt. Yes, it did... Although I'm not sure that is the correct behavior. > I liked this because I am a programmer I often get lots > of errors when I try to compile a program. Using reset in FC1 allowed > me to be sure that I was only seeing the errors from the most recent > compile attempt. However, in FC2 typing gives a prompt at the top of > the terminal window, but does not clear the screen nor the terminal > buffer Are you using gnome-terminal? Terminal menu -> Reset and Clear item Or, you can copy your old terminfo from FC1 /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm into the ~/.terminfo/x/ directory. But it may cause other things to malfunction. I haven't a clue. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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