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- From: gml4410@ggr.co.UK (Lack Mr G M)
- Subject: Re: Need XTERM to process Form Feed to clear screen.
- Message-ID: <9209101243.AA11731@uk0x06.ggr.gri.com>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:43:20 GMT
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- > Need advice as to how to get XTERM to process FF (form feed) like
- > conventional VT100 terminals. The regular terminals will scroll up
- > and clear a page worth of screen. Can't seem to find out anything
- > to set to cause this to happen and our applications use form feed to
- > clear an area to place text into with escape sequence commands
- > so without the clear area the display gets garbled. Would appreciate
- > any help on this.
-
- I'm not aware of a vt100 doing a screen-clear when it get a
- form-feed??! I *am* aware that a Prime PT200 terminal goes to HOME (ie.
- 0,0) when it gets a form-feed. All vt100 emulators I have seen either
- ignore form-feed or throw a blank line instead (in fact, I find it quite
- amusing that this comes form Computervision as I asked Prime whether the
- PT200 could be configurable to ignore form-feed arther than going home,
- so that it looked more like a vt100....)
-
- Why don't you get your software to send Esc[HEsc[J, which should
- clear the screen for anything remotely close to a vt100.
-
-
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