From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: DOS cursor/screen commands?
Date: 15 Nov 2002 21:55:45 GMT
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rrd AT ftc DOT agilent DOT com (Ray Depew) wrote in
news:1037396636 DOT 65247 AT cswreg DOT cos DOT agilent DOT com: 

> A. Sinan Unur (asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu) wrote:
>: so, decide if you want to use ansi.sys. if you do, then load it.
>: otherwise, look at the documentation for conio functions.
> 
> huh.  I guess my question is more basic, then.  Rather than ask anyone
> to debug my program, I just want to know how to clear the screen from
> inside a C program.  

you did download the documentation, right?

info libc func conio

it is the third function from top.

C:\Dload\misc>cat mycls.c
#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
        clrscr();
        return 0;
}

C:\Dload\misc>gcc -Wall -O2 mycls.c -o mycls.exe -s

RTFM.
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