Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Tue Jul 27 10:44:10 EDT 2010


Grant Edwards a écrit :
> On 2010-07-27, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
>> Daniel Fetchinson a ?crit :
(snip)
>>> Why was clearing a terminal left out?
>>>
>> What you're talking about is a shell, not a terminal (a terminal is a 
>> physical device).
> 
> No, what he's talking about is clearing a terminal (or a terminal
> emulator).  They both work the same, the only difference is whether
> the terminal software is running on dedicated hardware or on
> general-purpose hardware.

(snip)

I stand corrected.



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