Re: usleep

[Aleksandar Bakic <bakicale@cps.msu.edu>]

^L as a character doesn't clear the screen of a terminal (it does when
you press ctrl-l). Try to put it in a file and then cat that file
from a Unix shell.

Aleks

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> 
> 
> wait a sec.  i just found documentation saying that the lower charactors
> were supported. "ff" (number twelve) i believe has been renamed "page".
> therefore (write-char #\page) should clear the screen.  but it dosn't.
> 
> does guile set the screen to some strange mode uppon startup?
> 
> > I am not sure I can help. Do you mean using the curses library? I
> > haven't seen any mention of it in GUILE docs.
> > 
> > Aleks
> > 
> > > 
> > > > > thanks!  for the long term, is there anywhere that i should have looked to
> > > > > find that?  (i.e. so i can find the next one myself, instead of bugging
> > > > > you guys ;)
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Try with a guile-doc archive. It contains some info files, although
> > > > not complete.
> > > 
> > > i checked into it, and it looks like that's the documentation that i was
> > > looking at :)
> > > 
> > > on the positive side, i found the index :)  on negative side it didn't
> > > seem to have select in it :(
> > > 
> > > i couldn't find any screen functions (i'm trying to clear the screen)
> > > (i already tried turning a integer 12 into a charactor, and writing it to
> > > the screen, but it looks like someone stopped me from that little trick :)
> > > 
> > > could you point me to the area of documentation i should look at for
> > > screen functions?  (charactor mode)
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > 
> > > 	Corey Sweeney
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
> > e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu
> > 
> 
> 
> 	Corey Sweeney
> 


-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu