Re: Clear screen command?

[Juergen.Pfeifer@t-online.de (Juergen Pfeifer)]

Jeremy Mlazovsky wrote:
> 
> Right now, I am stuck doing the generic ADA output that pushes the screen up
> one line at a time as another line of text is output.
> 
> I need to know how to clear the screen after a certain number of lines have
> been output to the screen.
> 
> Is there some way to make it so that the screen is "locked" in one position,
> so that text at the top of the screen remains at the top, and subsequent
> lines of output go to the bottom of the screen?
> 
You can solve your problem by using the curses library provided with almost
any UNIX like system. The curses library is a set of C routines allowing to
program your screen in a terminal independent way. If you think this is the
right way to go you may pick up the just released free software implementation
of curses named "ncurses" from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu. The nice thing
with ncurses is, that it comes with a complete Ada95 binding tested and
developed for GNAT.

Juergen