Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:49:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: C amateur want to know how to clear a text screen.
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On Sun, 30 May 1999, Kieran Farrell wrote:

>     system( "cls" );

Beware: system() calls the shell for such commands, and unless your shell 
is the stock COMMAND.COM, the above will produce little more than an error 
message.  Depending upon the shell is hardly a portable way of doing 
things.

People who need to write portable programs that clear the screen, should 
probably opt for a portable package such as Curses, but even that will 
not always be available with some (most?) Windows compilers.