using 'printf' in a script in terminal window

[Jerry]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:13:35 -0600
Mike McNally <emmecinque at gmail.com> replied:

> I'm running Linux, and yes I was talking about the console, not an X
> terminal emulator.
> 
> Note that the only way for "printf" to clear the screen reliably
> would be for it to do exactly the same thing that "clear" does. (Key
> word there is "reliably.")
> 
> I won't defend the status quo as representing a state of perfection
> of course. Back in the 70's the real-world day-to-day problem that
> was the ridiculous variation in ASCII terminal capabilities was
> insane.  At least nowadays the vast majority of "terminals" in use
> are xterm (or whatever-term). Still, there are surprisingly many
> variations even of that animal (though I suspect that most of them
> more-or-less behave like xterm, which itself is mostly like a VT-100
> or VT-something, I think).

I just received a response from one of the Terminal developers. He
wants to know if this behavior is also apparent in vte (and/or
gnome-terminal). If you, or anyone else could supply me with a
definitive response I would appreciate it. He seems to be inclined to
consider this a BUG.

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

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