From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jacob.ritorto@gmail.com (Jacob Ritorto) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:11:28 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed In-Reply-To: <54A48166.9060007@mhorton.net> References: <25524.1420058716@cesium.clock.org> <54A48166.9060007@mhorton.net> Message-ID: Well, it's just me teaching my kid recursion in c, so it's kind of informal and I'm just clearing the screen to repaint it a second later with changes. It's too bad that curses adds so much overhead. I'll have to compare the resultant a.outs to confirm exactly how much.. Not that it matters for a play program, really, more of a curiosity.. Thanks again Mary Ann! On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote: > 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 listTUHS at minnie.tuhs.orghttps://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: