From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 12:27: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.knology.net (user-24-214-63-14.knology.net [24.214.63.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E1A637B417 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2240 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2001 20:26:48 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-92-93.knology.net (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.92.93) by user-24-214-63-14.knology.net with SMTP; 14 Dec 2001 20:26:48 -0000 Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBEKQWq41246; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:26:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:26:32 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: clear screen command? Message-ID: <20011214142631.B40928@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:04:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:04:25PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > When the screen gets full of messages and starts rolling off, > I would sometimes like to clear the screen IE: blank it out, > so only the command line remains. > Does FBSD have a command to do this? Yes, its "clear(1)". -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message