From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:06:14 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed In-Reply-To: References: <25524.1420058716@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID: <54A48166.9060007@mhorton.net> Jacob, Are you just clearing the screen in an otherwise scroll-oriented program, or are you doing graphics by clearing and repainting a similar screen when something changes? The termcap "cl" method is perfect for the former, but curses is better suited for the latter. Mary Ann On 12/31/2014 02:30 PM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > I'm actually running an old CIT-101 from c.itoh. The pdp11 is > currently just simh on a raspberry pi, but I have a lot of pdp11 > hardware in various states of disrepair. my 11/73 ran 2.11bsd nicely > has a burned out power supply and I haven't been able to fix it. > > I checked out the curses man page in 2.11 and tried to use curses > clear, but it really does tack on a lot of overhead & slows things > down. So I'm now tempted to just cheat, keep it simple, find a simple > escape string that works on real vt100s as well as xterms, etc. and > just printf it. > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Clem Cole > wrote: > > Ah - that makes sense, and since VT-100 are not fully ANSI, > that's likely why it's not listed in my circa 1976 VT-100 > programmers manual and probably why it does not work for Jacob. ;-) > > Clem > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Erik E. Fair > > wrote: > > The sequence ESC-c is ANSI X3.64 for "reset to initial state" > which > happens to clear the screen, among other things. I still use it > frequently to reset Mac OS X "Terminal" windows to a sane state, > manually entered. > > Erik > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: