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Article #4815beginner's stupid question
From: Donald R Lloyd
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:00
Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 00:00
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I'm a freshman EE major here at the U of Delaware, taking my first course in Modula 2. It seems to be a decent language (of course, my only previous language experience was in BASIC on a c-128 & a little LISP last semester, so ANY language seems decent to me at this point).
I generally have no problem doing the programming assignments we're given (although I do spend a heckuvalotta time removing parsing errors), most ofwhich just consist of reading in & manipulating records in various ways. Anyway, one thing I've been trying to do all semester, just to 'spruce up' the screen output, is to CLEAR the %^&$%$%^ SCREEN from modula!!!
So far, I've had no luck. I've tried messing around with IMPORT @EXTERNAL (like in the unix.def file) clear, but really had no idea how IMPORT @EXT works, so I had no luck.
Is there some way to print a control character or ASCII code that will clear the screen? Can somebody come up with a relatively simple, short method of clearing the screen and explain it to me (mail it)? I absolutely despise programs that don't clear the screen when I run them (for the most part).
By the way, I'm using the 'mod' compiler on a vax under unix 4.3.
Thanks,
------------------ Don Lloyd
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!udccvax1!don From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: beginner's stupid question Message-ID: <3610@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 12 May 89 00:00:36 GMT Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) Organization: dis- Lines: 18