Thanks a lot!  Instant gratification - I love it!

Blake



On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Frederick H. Pitts
<fred.pi...@comcast.net>wrote:

> Blake,
>
>         If you are looking for instant gratification,
>
> ⍞ ← (⎕UCS 27), '[2J'
>
> will do the job on any terminal that honors ansi escape sequences.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
> Retired Chemical Engineer
>
> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 19:29 -0500, Blake McBride wrote:
> > Dear Elias,
> >
> >
> > On one hand, I would still love to see a basic ^L ability without
> > having to get into external code.
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, perhaps I should start to take a look at library
> > code.  (I actually have over 20 years of C experience.)  I fear my
> > reaction once I see how it works.  I'm sure the possibilities are
> > endless.  I haven't even looked at it yet.  Is there a hello world
> > sample?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Blake
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Elias Mårtenson <loke...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         The correct way to do that is to use the native interface to
> >         provide an interface to Curses. It should be fairly trivial to
> >         implement.
> >
> >
> >         On 27 May 2014 07:32, "Blake McBride" <blake1...@gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> >         >
> >         > If I execute ⎕AV[8] the terminal sounds the bell.  If I type
> >         ^L my xterm screen clears.  I need one of the ⎕AV characters
> >         to do what ^L does.   That gives me the absolute basics of
> >         screen IO.
> >         >
> >         > Thanks.
> >         >
> >         > Blake
> >         >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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