wyse 60/150 clear screen

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:53:50AM -0400, Joe Chasan wrote:
>> anyone still using a wyse 60 or 150 terminal that remembers the setting
>> for this?
>> 
>> on screen clear or more than 25 lines of data sent terminal wraps around 
>> instead of clearing.  
>> 
>> surely it must be a simple setting somewhere.  I have no such beast
>> to check (and have to stifle laughter, comments i'd like to make, etc,
>> when i get calls from this particular customer who is still married
>> to them).  i still remember a few tricks from these antiques, but this
>> one escapes me.
>
>I believe it's in Scroll-Lock mode, but I don't recall quite how to get
>it out.  We used to have a manual, but I don't think we do anymore.

ctrl-q (xon) should take it out of scroll lock mode.

The clear screen command depends on the emulation being used.
Most *nix systems have either the ``clear'' command, or one could
use ``tput clear''.

Bill
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