ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?

Wed May 21 02:43:00 GMT 1997

Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>> kunglao@prairienet.org wrote:
> > 
> > I've just rebuilt termcap & ncurses, that went fine. But now I'm 
> > trying to run some of the test programs that ncurses has. And it 
> > appears that it just cannot erase the screen. The curses is set to 
> > the top of the window, but all the text is still there. I've tried a 
> > few different things for my TERM env variable, linux, ansi, pc-ansi, 
> > vt100, etc. They all behaved the same.
>> Is your /etc/termcap right?

With the new /etc/termcap from b18, I do an "export TERM=linux"
in bash, and then hit a control-l to clear.
Under Windows NT, the right thing happens. Under Windows 95, however
I see the behavior kunglao@prairienet.org reports where the
prompt is moved but the old text doesn't get erased.
-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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