From: "Pierre Beaulieu" <pbeaulie AT videotron DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: C amateur want to know how to clear a text screen.
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 07:45:38 -0400
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Interesting approach.

Pierre

Kieran Farrell <kezman AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
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>
> conio.h is in my oppinion a great header, but there is another way to
> clear the screen that can be adapted into a portable version. Try
> this.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <process.h> /* Not sure if I spelled that right, oops */
>
> void cls(void)
> {
>     system( "cls" );
>     return;
> }
>
> What that basically does is ask the operating sytem to clear the
> screen. As opposed to conio.h accessing the graphics card dirictly, to
> make it portable, unix uses clear instead of cls. So something like
> this MIGHT!!! work.
>
> #ifdef (WIN32)
> #define cls(void) system( "cls" )
> #endif
>
> #ifdef (UNIX)
> #define cls(void) system( "clear" )
> #endif
>
> Someone who knows more about compiler commands might be able to
> correct me if I'm wrong there since I just made it up, but it should
> work *8).
>
> >Try the function clrscr() from conio.h.
> >> Can't find a library function to do that.
>