Re: Way OT: C++ function to clear screen

[David Teague <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry even to mail the Debian list about this, but I can't find this
> information anywhere.  I'm wondering what a function would be in C++
> that I could use to clear the screen at the beginning of the program
> (this is just a console program).  Sorry to bother you.

Cameron 

Someone said "apropos clear". Here is how to make use of this BASH
command from within C++. I hope this is useful to you and isn't
beating the dead horse. 

#include <cstdlib>
int main(){ system("clear"); }

ought to do it. If your compiler doesn't like cstdlib, use stdlib.h
instead.

--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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