On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:57:45PM +0100, Sune Kirkeby wrote: > [ Sune Kirkeby ] > > I don't know how or why, but it does _not_ clear the scroll-back buffer > > on my console, "chvt 63 ; reset -Q ; chvt 1" does though. > > [ Ethan Benson ] > > you don't need the reset -Q there. the simple act of changing VCs > > clears the scrollback history. > > Sorry, my bad for being unclear. I meant that the above command would > clear both the scroll-back buffer and the "actual" terminal itself. > except your reset -Q happens on tty63, which alsmost certainly has nothing there you care about. you want to clear tty1 (or wherever you were logged in). `clear` is a sufficient way to do that rather then reset (which resets all kinds of things and is slower then clear) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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