On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:10:05PM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: > >> > /usr/bin/reset should do what you want here. > >> Nope - that doesn't clear the scrollback history. > > > > It does on every xterm I've ever used. It may not if you are using > > some funky xterm replacement, or if you have TERM set incorrectly > > as is quite common. > > I'm using "the" xterm (and, no - not in the way that > Karl Rove had access to "the" poll numbers) and I > claim that there's nothing funky going on with my rig: > > ######## fleagle:~ 1468---> xterm -version > XFree86 4.3.99.5(179) > ######## fleagle:~ 1469---> type xterm > xterm is hashed /usr/bin/xterm > ######## fleagle:~ 1470---> rpm -qf /usr/bin/xterm > xterm-179-6.EL3 > ######## fleagle:~ 1471---> echo $TERM > xterm
Looks good to me, reasonably close to what I see on my systems here. One has the same version of xterm, and works fine. That system has: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mwl]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/reset ncurses-5.3-9.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mwl]$ rpm -qf /etc/termcap termcap-11.0.1-17.1 > ...and although that "reset" app (which is basically just > the "tset" app) does send an escape sequence that clears > the screen and puts certain things back to their initial > states, it definitely doesn't clear the scrollback history, > which is still viewable via Shift+PageUp or the mousewheel > or the menubar slider thingy as always. On my systems 'clear' does what you describe, 'reset' does what I describe. The scrollback history is definitely gone. I am unable to reproduce the behaviour you describe. > FWIW, I've been using "the" xterm (as opposed to color > xterm or rcvxt [sp?] or the Gnome thingy or the KDE > thingy, etc...) and this has always been true, AFAIK. Strange, I've been using xterm for longer than I can remember, on several platforms, and 'reset' has always worked as I described. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP KeyID 0x57C3430B Holder of Past Knowledge CS, O- "The man who listens to reason is lost: reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her." George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
