'clear' is inadequate for my needs - it clears the screen by pushing the text that was in the screen back into the screen buffer, so if I scroll up I still see the old text. I want the old text to be gone completely. > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:50:00 -0500 > From: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: reset on FC2 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <20041021205000.GA19200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:13:41AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I recently upgraded from FC1 to FC2 (again - the first time my machine > > didn't have enough RAM, so I doubled it and it seems to work fine now.) > > I'm a developer, and I use the command line a lot. My programs > > frequently have a great deal of syntax errors in them, which usually > > scroll past the top of the screen. In FC1 I always used "reset" to > > clear the screen and the buffer so that after each compile I wouldn't > > have to worry about seeing errors from a previous compile and confusing > > them with errors from the current compile. In FC2 I type "reset" and it > > doesn't clear the screen buffer - it doesn't even clear the screen. I > > ran "yum update" last night, so my system should be fully updated. Is > > there a way to fix this problem with reset? Can anyone tell me what > > package its in, or at least where the executable file is so I can copy > > my FC1 reset over it? I ran "locate reset | more" (using less erases > > the screen after you exit out), but the only "reset" I found was in > > /usr/bin and that was a soft link to "tset" which didn't seem to do > > anything when I ran it. Please help!!! > > -Michael Sullivan- > > > How about the clear command. > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > One Trinity Place. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
