Re: Clear screan question

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Sune Kirkeby wrote:
> 
> I don't know how or why, but it does _not_ clear the scroll-back buffer
> on my console, "chvt 63 ; reset -Q ; chvt 1" does though.

you don't need the reset -Q there.  the simple act of changing VCs
clears the scrollback history.  the scrollback history is being kept
by the kernel, its not known to the various terminal software.  shift
page-up is not part of normal terminals.  

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Ethan Benson
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