Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM CLS suggestions (vs. CTTY?)

2004-06-15 Thread tom ehlert
Dear Mr. Auer, Mr. Ehlert is in France this week but he will be back at the weekend. He will answer your questions as soon as possible. Thanks, i.A. L. Tartan Sunday, June 13, 2004, 5:01:20 AM, you wrote: > Hi, I wondered what CLS should do while CTTY points to "not CON". > Any ideas? I could n

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM CLS suggestions (vs. CTTY?)

2004-06-13 Thread Jim Hall
The way MS-DOS dealt wit this was if the display device was not the DOS console the CLS command should return an ANSI escape to clear the screen. A very, very old standalone version of FreeDOS CLS did this. -jh Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I wondered what CLS should do while CTTY points to "not CON". Any

[Freedos-devel] FreeCOM CLS suggestions (vs. CTTY?)

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I wondered what CLS should do while CTTY points to "not CON". Any ideas? I could not find it by Googling, so I assume that people will simply not try using CLS over a serial terminal... Or if they do - the CLEAR / HOME ANSI escape sequence or - a bunch for linefeeds or - a formfeed should do