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Re: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?
- To: sos at prospect dot com dot ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
- Subject: Re: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 15:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, kunglao at prairienet dot org
Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>
> kunglao@prairienet.org wrote:
> >
> > I've just rebuilt termcap & ncurses, that went fine. But now I'm
> > trying to run some of the test programs that ncurses has. And it
> > appears that it just cannot erase the screen. The curses is set to
> > the top of the window, but all the text is still there. I've tried a
> > few different things for my TERM env variable, linux, ansi, pc-ansi,
> > vt100, etc. They all behaved the same.
>
> Is your /etc/termcap right?
With the new /etc/termcap from b18, I do an "export TERM=linux"
in bash, and then hit a control-l to clear.
Under Windows NT, the right thing happens. Under Windows 95, however
I see the behavior kunglao@prairienet.org reports where the
prompt is moved but the old text doesn't get erased.
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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