[TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed

[Jacob Ritorto]

Mary, this is exactly what I needed -- good to go now; thank you!

As a side note: Man, what an intimidating can of braindamage I've opened! :)

thanks all!
jake

P.S. if anyone's bored enough, you can check out what we're up to at
https://github.com/srphtygr/dhb.  I'm trying to get my 11yo kid to spend a
little time programming rather than just playing video games when he's near
a computer.  He'a actually getting through this stuff and is honestly
interested when he understands it and sees it work -- and he even spotted a
bug before me this afternoon!  Feel free to raise issues, pull requests,
etc. if you like -- I'm putting him through the git committing and pair
programming paces, so outside interaction would be kinda fun :)

P.P.S.  We're actually using 2.11bsd after all..


On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:

> This is the right info.  Be sure to scroll up to see how to use tgetent,
> tgetstr, and tputs.  You aren't likely to need any padding.
>
> Essentially:
>     tgetent using getenv("TERM")    gets you the whole entry from
> /etc/termcap
>     tgetstr of "cl"                            gets you the "clear"
> sequence
>     tputs                                        outputs the "clear"
> sequence
>
>
> On 12/30/2014 06:22 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
>> Check out https://www.gnu.org/software/termutils/manual/termcap-1.3/
>> html_mono/termcap.html#SEC30
>> - especially the "cl" entry.
>>
>> ISTR the database being at /etc/termcap normally.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> oops, thanks and sorry!  I neglected to mention that this is in the
>>> context
>>> of a c program.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2.11 BSD has clear (1).
>>>> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/ucb/clear.c
>>>> Cheers Warren
>>>>
>>>> On 31 December 2014 08:56:30 AEST, Jacob Ritorto <
>>>> jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> , but I can't see how you're supposed to clear the screen on a vt100 in
>>>>> 2.9BSD.  I guess printf'ing ("\033c") would do the trick, but I assumed
>>>>> there was a more proper way; something that leverages the vt100 termcap
>>>>> entry and does the right thing.  Anyone?
>>>>>
>>>>> thx
>>>>> jake
>>>>>
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