irritating output of `clear screen` commands

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-May-2000, Gerald Marewo <address@hidden> wrote:

| Hie.
| 
| Our system administrator has just downloaded and installed
|       octave 2.0.16
| One irritating thing I have just noticed in this version is that
| the commands
|       home, and
|       clc
| do not exactly clear the screen. Below is a typical output from
| either commands.
|       octave:3> clc()octave:4>
| 
| Is there any way of getting rid of this behavior and get the
| expected behavior?
| 
| Another question is:
|       * What new features or bug fixes come with 'octave 2.0.16'?
| 
| Any form of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


2000-05-20  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * sysdep.cc (Fclc): Call _rl_clear_screen instead of rl_clear_screen.


*** src/sysdep.cc~      Thu Oct 21 02:04:08 1999
--- src/sysdep.cc       Sat May 20 02:02:25 2000
***************
*** 388,399 ****
  #endif
  }
  
  DEFUN (clc, , ,
    "clc (): clear screen")
  {
    octave_value_list retval;
  
!   rl_clear_screen (0, 0);
  
    return retval;
  }
--- 388,401 ----
  #endif
  }
  
+ extern "C" void _rl_clear_screen ();
+ 
  DEFUN (clc, , ,
    "clc (): clear screen")
  {
    octave_value_list retval;
  
!   _rl_clear_screen ();
  
    return retval;
  }



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