On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:28 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please explain more ab out the  IOCTL calls.
>
> I tried to clear the screen  with something like
> printf("\x1B[2J"); but I  couldn't get it to work.

This worked for me under gcc (CygWin) in the CygWin bash shell

$ cat clrscr.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

  printf("\x1B[2J");
  return 0;
}

Haven't tried it under VC++ under the cmd shell but this kind of thing
used to work under DOS if you had ANSI.SYS loaded.

-- Brett
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