screen clear question

[Alan Gauld]

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.


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