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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Clear Screen
Date: 1997/02/21
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In article <330D0C26.6331@videotron.ca>, Christian Lebeau <lebeauc@videotron.ca> writes:

> I am just beginning to learn ADa, so fare i was not able to find how to
> do a clear screen!!!
> Can anyone tell me how to do a simple clear screen

Since you do not specify any particular:

	Ada Compiler, Operating System, Screen

I will presume:

	DEC Ada V2, VAX VMS V5.4, VT100

In which case you could call the SCR library with request
type SCR$C_ERASE_PAGE.

With Ada 95, things are less dependent upon your compiler and
operating system, but they have not improved at all with regard
to having the compiler on the development machine guess what
model of screen (character cell, X-windows, etc.) will be on
the production machine.

Larry Kilgallen