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Subject: Re: Screen package (Mike Feldman)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:20:08 -0500
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In article 
<763c9600-b888-4d85-9fe9-2f1e5286eadf@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
 tolkamp <f.tolkamp@chello.nl> wrote:

> I have downloaded the Screen package from Mike Feldman. It works 
> on the CMD (terminal) window with the following problems after a 
> ClearScreen command :
> 1) Only half of the lines of the screen is cleared.
> 2) The prompt "C:\GNAT\bin>" remains displayed at the left   upper
> corner of the screen.
> How can the screen be cleared complete?

IIRC, some terminal emulators clear the screen by writing a series 
of empty lines to the screen. If the terminal window is enlarged, 
the number of lines written may not suffice to clear the entire 
screen. Have you tried a different terminal emulator?

<http://technosrix.blogspot.com/2008/08/best-windows-terminal-emulators.html>
<http://www.mit.edu/~vona/MSim/vona/terminal/VT100_Escape_Codes.html>

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John B. Matthews
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