Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?

[David Robinow]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <mailman.1445.1280767895.1673.python-list at python.org>, David
> Robinow wrote:
>
>>  As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my
>> \windows\system32 directory.
>> Some number of these have been upgraded by Windows Update.
>
> What about the ones that aren’t? How do you maintain those?
Lawrence, you've been asking a lot of off-topic questions about
Microsoft Windows. I think it's wonderful that you're so open to new
ideas, but suggest that you take it to a Windows group, where I'm sure
you'll get a friendly response.