reset on FC2

[Michael Sullivan]

'clear' is inadequate for my needs - it clears the screen by pushing the
text that was in the screen back into the screen buffer, so if I scroll
up I still see the old text.  I want the old text to be gone completely.

> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:50:00 -0500
> From: akonstam at trinity.edu
> Subject: Re: reset on FC2
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <20041021205000.GA19200 at Moof.cs.trinity.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:13:41AM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > I recently upgraded from FC1 to FC2 (again - the first time my machine
> > didn't have enough RAM, so I doubled it and it seems to work fine now.) 
> > I'm a developer, and I use the command line a lot.  My programs
> > frequently have a great deal of syntax errors in them, which usually
> > scroll past the top of the screen.  In FC1 I always used "reset" to
> > clear the screen and the buffer so that after each compile I wouldn't
> > have to worry about seeing errors from a previous compile and confusing
> > them with errors from the current compile.  In FC2 I type "reset" and it
> > doesn't clear the screen buffer - it doesn't even clear the screen.  I
> > ran "yum update" last night, so my system should be fully updated.  Is
> > there a way to fix this problem with reset?  Can anyone tell me what
> > package its in, or at least where the executable file is so I can copy
> > my FC1 reset over it?  I ran "locate reset | more" (using less erases
> > the screen after you exit out), but the only "reset" I found was in
> > /usr/bin and that was a soft link to "tset" which didn't seem to do
> > anything when I ran it.  Please help!!!
> > -Michael Sullivan-
> > 
> How about the clear command.
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> One Trinity Place.
> San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
> 
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
> email:akonstam at trinity.edu