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From: doucet@ripolin.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet,149,6323)
Subject: Re: SunOS Clear Screen
Date: 1997/02/28
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Date: 1997-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
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In article 857058369@merv, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
| Perry asks
| 
| <<Where can I find information on accomplishing a clear screen command for
| Ada.  I am running GNAT under the Sun Solaris OS.>>
| 
| The important thing to realize is that this is not an Ada question at all.
| 
| But don't look to Ada for a solution to this. Note that exactly the same
| would be true in C, there is no way to clear a screen in C either!
| 


All the Ada compilers I've worked with (including Gnat) on a Sparc with SunOS
clear the screen by simply calling Ada.Text_IO.New_Page.

Curiously, the usual <Escape> & "[2J" sequence doesn't seem to work...

Good luck.


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Jean-Etienne Doucet / LAAS-CNRS / Toulouse, France       E-mail: doucet@laas.fr