Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:48:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: cpiazza@home.net (Chris Piazza) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/cls Makefile ports/misc/cls/files md5 ports/misc/cls/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <199906301748.KAA06337@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <19990630104206.B419@norn.ca.eu.org> from Chris Piazza at "Jun 30, 1999 10:42:06 am"
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:37:38AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > cpiazza 1999/06/30 00:14:48 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > . modules
> > > . LEGAL
> > > misc Makefile
> > > Removed files:
> > > misc/cls Makefile
> > > misc/cls/files md5
> > > misc/cls/pkg COMMENT DESCR PLIST
> > > Log:
> > > Remove the cls port. It can easily be done from the command line.
> >
> > It's also already in the base system as ``/usr/bin/clear'', a 1 line
> > shell script with a 35 line copyright and 1 line of blank. The
> > effective line is ``exec tput clear''.
>
> Actually cls outputs enough lines to clear the scrollback buffer, too
> so it is a little different.
> for i in {1..100}; do printf "\n" ; done <g>
Won't even come close to clearing my X windows scroll back buffers that
are set at 1000 lines....
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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