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Can someone direct me as to how one would clear the
screen in c++ under linux?  I have read dejanews
archives concerning this and see that there is no
way to do this that is c/c++ generic - that it is
os- and c++ distribution-specific.  That said, I
did a look for any linux-specific c++ programming
newsgroups and find none.  

Can someone please instruct me as to how one clears
the screen in c++?  The model program I am using is
dos/windows based and uses conio.h to provide this
function.  I would like the similar function for
linux.

patrick

Quote:>Can someone direct me as to how one would clear the
>screen in c++ under linux?  I have read dejanews

If you don't reject a good GUI, I would suggest to install kDevelop1.1. It comes
with lot of online help and examples.

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Eggert Ehmke

Try system("clear);

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Alex Vrenios
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Dept.

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:36:36 -0700, Patrick O'Neil

Quote:>Can someone direct me as to how one would clear the
>screen in c++ under linux?  I have read dejanews

>Can someone please instruct me as to how one clears
>the screen in c++?  The model program I am using is
>dos/windows based and uses conio.h to provide this
>function.  I would like the similar function for
>linux.

C++?  Hmm.  This works in C:
#include<stdlib.h>
...
system("clear");

the ncurses package is the de facto standard for doing terminal I/O.
There are probably C++ wrappers for it somewhere.  Don't know where; I
tend to use C for the non-graphical stuff.

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