From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: clear screen in bash ?
Organization: Pin Eight Software <http://pineight.8m.com/>
Message-ID: <9g5h7ssb3sghlqvp4qd2drcvsiq73eic2q@4ax.com>
References: <851meg$4h AT cs DOT vu DOT nl> <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000109092558 DOT 23866M-100000 AT is>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 18
X-Trace: /wLwTfswA3mQZrGjt+TIWh3sKLp9PsH7HmlsF7guFPZx4TXlWxw1yQa9WNMU/nCscAxtrDBWvOjx!laeNZ3O61KzcnSqXTFoEFQbkCnXZGr1pZn9GVPi5vnB56iDCdFCUF4SSSX0w9Yt5s0xV/rt0JQ==
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net
X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 14:10:59 GMT
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 14:10:59 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000109092558 DOT 23866M-100000 AT is>...
>
>On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl wrote:
>
>> alias cls='command.com /c cls'
>
>Or just write a simple DJGPP program `cls.exe' that calls `clrscr'.

Wouldn't that be a waste? DJGPP has to switch into protected mode.
It would be much more efficient CPU-and disk-wise to write it in
Borland C++. The "hello world is huge" topic has been discussed here
many times.


-- 
Damian Yerrick  http://yerricde.tripod.com/
View full sig at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html