On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:15:23 +1000, Nick Coghlan > Alan Gauld wrote: > > But the bottom line is that there is no builtin command > > because the mechanism is different on each platform. > > I'd have said it was because the inpreter is line-oriented rather than > screen-oriented, but YMMV.
Yeah, that might be a reason as well :-) But then the early PC GW-Basic or BASICA interpreters were line based too but both provided a CLS command because the *programs* that were written were usually screen based... But they ran on a single OS so a CLS was easily possible. Alan G. Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list