On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:21, 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. I have a question: The 'reset' > command in FC1 completely cleared the terminal window and gave a fresh > shell prompt. 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 (what I call the buffer is the text in the terminal that can be > seen by scrolling up.) Are there plans to fix this? If not, can anyone > tell me what package the 'reset' command is in so that I can download > the source and alter it and reinstall it??? Thank you for your help. Use the "clear" command instead. Reset is a bit of a sledgehammer if you just want the screen cleared. Doesn't clear your scrollbuffer though... Cheers, Ben
