On 17 Oct 2002 17:59:14 +0100 Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 04:04, Andrew Basterfield wrote: > > I know I can clear the screen from the console with Ctrl-L or > > Alt-012 to produce the ASCII character 'form-feed'. > > How does Ctrl-L or Alt-012 clear the screen? Neither should have that > effect. Alt-012 is just a carriage return, Ctrl-L is an term refresh > often. It's client, rather than terminal, dependent (I believe)? PS Ctrl-L produces ascii 012 as 'L' is the 12th letter in the alphabet :) --Andrew
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