display vs video sync vs ^L

William James McEachran billmc at dataffinity.com
Wed Jan 17 06:53:30 PST 2007


On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:48:57AM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> I finally figured out pushkey "[DRAW]"  by doing "strings rclerk |less", 
> and then searching for a code I did know like BRKY, and luckily that panned 
> out and there was a nice list in there, and luckily, the pushkey actually 
> did cause a refresh like Ctrl-L.
> (I was prepared to find that ctrl-l worked at the os or shell level as part 
> of the tty line discipline and stty settings, and that
> trying to pushkey from inside fp wouldn't have the desired effect, that it 
> needs to come from the terminal for real, happy surprise it actually works)

Wish I had something useful to add, instead I'll offer my thanks for
finding "[DRAW]" which I know I'll use almost immediately.
-- 
Bill McEachran


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