symbolic links, aliases, cls clear

[Keith Thompson]

floyd at apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
> af.dingo at gmail.com wrote:
>>If I may recommend an alternative,
>>
>>print "\033[H\033[J"
>>
>>the ansi sequence to clear the screen.
>
> Or so you would hope (however, that is *not* what you have listed!).
>
> Unfortunately, it is poor practice to hard code such sequences.
> Instead the proper sequence should be obtained from the
> appropriate database (TERMINFO or TERMCAP), and the easy way to
> do that is,
>
>    tput clear

(Or "clear".)

On the other hand, I think it's been at least a decade since I've used
a terminal or emulator that's not VT100-compatible (i.e., accepts ANSI
control sequences).

Of course, I'll run into one the day after I start writing code that
depends on that assumption.

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