ncurses just won't clear the screen?

Fri May 23 21:55:00 GMT 1997

> Check your /etc/termcap file to see if you have the updated one. 
> Basic term abilities seem to work now. I got rogue compiled and 
> working just fine. (Although I didn't use ncurses, it comes with a 
> toned down curses implementation)

I copied it straight from /usr/etc.

> Try this:
>> #include <stdio.h>
> int
> main()
> {
> 	printf("033円[2J");
> }
>> Compile and run it, if it clears the screen your term has the 
> properties of a proper terminal.
>> BTW my $TERM is ansi. I set it in autoexec.bat. I seem to recall when 
> I used linux term it didnt clear my screen either.

That did work perfectly with TERM=linux. So perhaps it's just 
ncurses that's not doing the screen clears. That's where the 
clear.exe came from, and many of the test programs aren't working.
BTW, I found that vt200 does work for screen clears. But then you 
lose things like color.
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