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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 partition slower than Mac Partition
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:26:27 GMT

li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li) writes:

>When working from Mac Applications, access to the Mac Partition is several
>times faster than a folder/directory under the root (/) partition.  Is
>this normal, and if so, could someone explain why?  Also, is there anything
>that can be done to make this faster?

Could it be the simple fact that the MacPartition is many times _smaller_
than "/"...?
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
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From: pharos@oar.net (Paul A. Panzl)
Subject: NSI 1.2.3
Organization: Ohio Academic Resources Network
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:35:51 GMT

Does anyone know if NSI 1.2.3 can be installed on a/ux 3.0
I am trying to run AROSE which requires appletalk 57.0.4.

Also does anyone know why sendmail would have trouble resolving 
a host that in in my DNS.  Sendmail produces an error - host 
unknown but I can telnet to it and nslookup sees it??

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Paul Panzl
panzl@pharos-tech.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Yet more about 'tc' (blocking issues)
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:27:35 GMT

jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:

>tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody) writes:

>>I have no information on the SCSI manager and am only grasping for straws,
>>but a remote possibility exists if the SCSI manager allows transfers which
>>are a multiple of N times the device block size.  In that case, setting the
>>block size to 1 byte would allow odd size transfers to the device.

>This may be possible... Of course, 'tc' would 1st have to issue a
>Read Block Limits to see if the device can do down as low as 1byte and
>then do the Mode Select... This also would mean that things be set up
>so that the device isn't _really_ in variable mode but in a small fixed
>blocksize mode...

Well, it looks like the above idea works! (Thanks Doug).

Buttttt... performance under this mode is a super dog. After all, the
tape drive must handshake for each and every _byte_ transfered.

Anyway, I'll be releasing tc 3.10 (seemed a big enuff improvement to
warrent a jump from 3.00 to 3.10) Pretty Soon... maybe by COB today.

Oh yeah... I don't even bother with the Read Block Limits, I just have
'tc' "force" 1byte block size, if this works, then fine...
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu (James Li)
Subject: A/UX 3.0 partition slower than Mac Partition
Organization: Jules Stein Eye Institute
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:52:26 PST

When working from Mac Applications, access to the Mac Partition is several
times faster than a folder/directory under the root (/) partition.  Is
this normal, and if so, could someone explain why?  Also, is there anything
that can be done to make this faster?

James Li
li@oculus.loni.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Strange Boot Behavior
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:32:40 GMT

levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan) writes:

>Arggh,
>My maxtor 535 went south after about 60 days...

Ack! Bad news... especially since I just bought 2 of 'em!

>The replacement arrived yesterday. After going through the
>torturus reinstallation I noticed that the drive will not
>boot! (It is an external). What I had done in the past was
>to hold down the <cmd>-<opt>-<shift>-<del> key. This causes
>the internal drive to be skipped. After the "question mark"
>in a disk icon appears I release the keys. Two weeks ago this
>would allow the external drive to boot. Now the internal drive
>goes ahead and becomes the startup disk!

>I have tried (several times) reinstalling the Mac Software on
>the external disk, I have swapped/tried all possible permutations
>of the the APS and Apple drivers all to no avail. I have set the
>startup device to the external drive but this does not work either.

Just a few ideas...

	1. The APS driver is based on SCSI Director, byt Apollyonics (sp?).
	   This driver uses a few bits strangely. The most important one
	   is the Mount bit. Sometimes (most of the time) APS Tools
	   doesn't correctly set this and automatic mounting isn't
	   enabled. This is esp. true if you install different
	   drivers and then switch around. The APS Assistant CDev
	   should be able to set things correctly.

	2. The Boot blocks may not be setup correctly... is the System
	   Folder on the disk Blessed? If not, open it, Get Info
	   on Finder and System, close and reboot.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: Looking for ready ELM
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:49:22 GMT

hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer) writes:

>I am looking for an Elm that is patched up to fate, and is ready to
>compile under A/UX. It should come preconfigured, as the sys adm of the
>machine it is going to has not much time to spend on it. So please mail
>it to me.

Setting up and configuring Elm from the original distribution takes
a total of maybe 2 minutes and, except for two little "hints" (adding
-lbsd as a library, and editing config.sh to "undef" locale_d) very
very simple.
-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Yep... that's right. Latest 'tc' released (3.10)
Summary: tc version 3.10 released
Keywords: tc tape driver
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:18:19 GMT

As promised, 'tc' version 3.10 is now available here on jagubox via
anon-ftp (it can be mailed too if need be). 'tc' is a replacement
for Apple's 'tc' (version 1.4) included with A/UX 3.0 and provides
some substantial (I hope) improvements and capabilties over 1.4.

NOTES for Golden version of 'tc' (version 3.10).

	o 'tc' can now read/write "variable" block sizes. As with
	  blocking to the tape drive's physical blocksize, this is
	  included only to help read/write tapes that will be used
	  on other platforms. This mode is a _real_ performance
	  dog, since variable block lengths are emulated by
	  changing the physical block size of the tape to 1byte
	  (A/UX's SCSI Manager doesn't support true variable block
	  lengths). See tc.1.Z for more info.
	o Various (minor) bug fixes, mainly with Teac 150 support.
	o Timeout time for offloading increased to include possible
	  rewind time.
	o 'mt' minor update (to 3.01) to support updated 'tc'.

As always, feedback is welcome (and usually added in... :)

Enjoy!

PS:  Does anything think that a tutorial about 'tc' and backing up
     is required?

-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren

-- 
    Jim Jagielski               | "It is not I who am crazy...
    jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov   |  it is I who am MAD!"
    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
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From: jefman@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (J. Mann)
Subject: Re: Login screen saver
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:19:52 GMT

In article <fred.722114318@ivhs.mot.com> fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner) writes:
[about screen savers:]
>I seem to have good luck with the "ON/OFF" switch on my monitor. Save power!

I used to do that but several times noticed that the power surge of turning
on the monitor while A/UX was running caused such things as disk read errors,
etc. I wouldn't recommend it.

I use "After Dark"; be sure to get the "Fade Away" module which just fades
to black; the other fancy ones drain cpu time.

----
Jeff Mann  -- usually mann@intacc.uucp, but intacc has been down for
              the last couple of weeks because bugs in A/UX 3.0 pax
              and tc drivers prevent me from restoring my backup tapes.
-- 
----
Jeff Mann  -- usually mann@intacc.uucp, but intacc has been down for
              the last couple of weeks because bugs in A/UX 3.0 pax
              and tc drivers prevent me from restoring my backup tapes.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner)
Subject: Re: Login screen saver
Organization: Motorola IVHS Group - Northbrook IL
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:18:38 GMT

jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:

>nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Nicholas R. Zimmerman) writes:

>>After easily installing A/UX 3.0 on my Quadra 900, I started playing about and
>>found one thing that I would really like. 
>> 
>>A screen saver (blanker) for the login screen. I really don't want to have it
>>sitting there burning the login screen into my monitor. Does anybody know of
>>one, or is there one available in A/UX that I have missed?
>> 

I seem to have good luck with the "ON/OFF" switch on my monitor. Save power!
If you're logged out, why does the monitor need to be on at all, unless
this is a computer room installation or the like.

>Moire and FMbackup seem a bit incompatible. They both function
>fine together but the combination prevents FMbackup's "Finishing up..."
>window from displaying, although FMbackup does, in fact, finish up.

FMbackup and QuickMail 2.5.1 also collide, and it makes FMbackup hang.
Forgot to put that in the last thread, so we'll sneak it in here :).

-FB
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 13:47:21 MST
From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Desktop file's getting screwed up, What to do?

Me four....

I have basically two complaints about A/UX; the first is that sound
is all screwed up (which wouldn't be so bad if I weren't a professional
musician), and what I've considered a screwed-up desktop. I first noticed
it when custom icons (the kind you past into the get info window)
disappeared, even though some poking around with ResEdit showed that
the related invisible Icon files were still healthy. Futher symptoms:

     o windows often revert to the default size
     o applications such as Fetch or CompactPro seem incabable of
       giving files anything other than the generic icon
     o a "crash" (i.e., I have to cmd-control-e, or telnet in and
       kill my login process to unfreez a Mac application) almost
       invariably screws up the desktop

And, probably, more that I can't think of at the moment. As a result of
all this, I've become quite adept at rm'ing the Desktop DB and DF files--
that reminds me, neither cmd-opt nor shift on login do anything, claims
in the manual to the contrary notwithstanding--and even had a shell script
that did the trick at one point.

None of this would be especially annoying if it didn't take a good ten
minutes or so to rebuild the desktop. I've tried making backup copies
of the Desk*DB and Desk*DF files, but that doesn't seem to do much of
anything constructive.

Anybody from Apple out there listening?

b&
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From: pharos@oar.net (Paul A. Panzl)
Subject: a/ux distribution cd files
Organization: Ohio Academic Resources Network
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:52:07 GMT


One of my trusted users deleted a file (man.exe) before I backed it up.  I was hoping to just copy the file from the distribution cd back to my drive but I can not see it.  Is there some way to do this or do I have to reinstall the manual pages totally?
From: x@springer.aux.apple.com (Steve Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: MacX from A/UX used with MacOS?
Date: 19 Nov 92 19:25:39 GMT
Reply-To: peters@apple.com
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <Qf2cMHe00WAL44_K9V@andrew.cmu.edu>, Matthew Mashyna <mm5l+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> > PowerBook to access A/UX on my IIci.  Is it possible to install MacX from
|> > the A/UX distribution CD on my PowerBook (this shouldn't be in
|> violation of...
|> 
|> I tried this a while ago.
|> 
|> It really choked big time. I don't remember the details but it crashed.

Hmmm, we master the MacX bits on the A/UX CD by copying from the MacOS distribution disks.
So I believe careful copying of the MAcX components from A/UX to MacOS should be
successful. However, the MacTCP network driver (Control Panel) is very different on the two 
systems, and should never ever be copied across!
-- 
Steve Peters
X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.
peters@apple.com
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From: bernt@Kimura.Stanford.EDU (Bernt Guldbrandtsen)
Subject: A/UX and virus infections
Keywords: a/ux virus
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:34:52 GMT


Hi, fellow Netters!


Can you help me with this; I would really appreciate any help.

A user inserted a disk that was probably infected with a virus
on our A/UX 3.0 (Mac IIfx, 20MB, 3x80HD). I would very, VERY
much like to know whether the machine is infected.

However, I'm sitting here, 2 continents away, so all the nice 
Mac-based anti-virus app.s are unavailable to me.

Does anybody know of anything short of calling an expensive
consultant to find out whether there is anything wrong.

The user in question was using the common systemfolder.

I have already made all programs that I know or think this user
has used unavailable.

Help!!

Bernt Guldbrandtsen
bernt@weinberg.pop.bio.aau.dk
From: briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen `NoExpose' Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: tty login problems
Keywords: tty, stty, setenv
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:37:00 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Nov22.004323.4320@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> pierre@bohica.tucson.az.us (Pierre Padovani) writes:
>My A/UX system has, currently, 1 mac hooked up to it's printer port as
>a tty, and we are running into some problems. When loging into the A/UX
>system from the remote mac via Microphone II we are unable to use stty
>to modify the number of rows and we are completely unable to use setenv
>from this tty. Is this a limitation of the A/UX tty ports? Or is
>something not set correctly?

My guess is that your erase setting is wrong.  setenv should always work
if you're using the csh--it certainly doesn't have anything to do with
your tty.  A/UX looks at the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS
instead of the stty settings rows and columns.  So instead of saying
"stty rows 39" say "setenv LINES 39" (for csh) or "LINES=39;export LINES"
(for sh or ksh or bash).  Before you do this, make sure that your erase
key is set correctly (stty -a will display it, stty erase '^h' will set
it to ascii 8, stty erase '^?' will set it to ascii 127).

As for getting the mac partition to mount, I've never had any problems.
In fact, all three of my mac partitions mount when I login--on the
console.  Of course, they won't mount on your remote mac.  Have you done
a "systemfolder" to get your very own, super-special, space-eating copy
of the system folder?  This might help.

-allen
-- 
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briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu | Everything breathes
Computer Science            \ Hear the voices of the land
Virginia Tech                  \ -- M. Brennan & I. Parker.
From: hp48sx@wupost.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Looking for ready ELM
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:09:38 -0600
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

I am looking for an Elm that is patched up to fate, and is ready to
compile under A/UX. It should come preconfigured, as the sys adm of the
machine it is going to has not much time to spend on it. So please mail
it to me.

thnaks,
Povl

-- 
Povl H. Pedersen             hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu
HP48sx archive maintainer

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From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: echo question
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:15:45 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
>>> >        echo 'first:this=that=other+second:this=that=other+' | tr '=+' '\011\012'
>>        OK, name an english-language version of Unix this'll bomb on.
>
>I haven't seen AIX/370, but I'm sure it'll bomb, being EBCDIC.

Actually, AIX/370 *is* ASCII based.

IBM did some truly strange things in AIX/370.  But making it
EBCDIC-based was not among them.  I however would not be surprised
if they *tried*, but gave up when they realized just how much
code exists that blindly assumed that (int)'z' - (int)'a' == 25.

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Engineer
				Virginia Tech
From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: newline in bash v1.12 with long PS1
Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:36:31 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <yw70TB1w165w@willard.UUCP> hronr@willard.UUCP writes:
>
>Roughly:
>PS1=<esc>[0;1;35m\!<esc>[32m${PWD}<esc>[35m$ <esc>[33m
>(the PS1 is single quoted.)
>
>When I am in a deep directory like /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces
>and I type a command, bash throws in a newline before I hit <enter>.

Bash does not know the `true' length of your prompt, because some of the
characters are non-printing.  It wraps when it thinks it's about to hit
the end of the line.  You can fix this by putting \n into PS1 after
the last non-printing character.  This will make your prompt two lines,
but bash will not be confused about the length.

>I also note that in sh, ksh, and csh you can 
>backspace over the prompt.  In bash you cannot.

This is a problem?

Chet
-- 
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	-- Arthur Schlesinger

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From: sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman)
Subject: Re: How to clear screen in sh ?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:32:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

In <gerald.722116730@gerald> gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com (Gerald Oskoboiny) writes:

>menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes:

>>echo '^L' does not work perfectly for me.

>Try "tput clear". (May be AIX-specific, I'm not sure).

Seems to work under HP/UX, SunOs (and solaris), SVR4 (NEC), dgux, 
osf1 (alpha box), MIPS, and SCO.

But it didn't work on NeXT nor DEC.

Just in case anyone wanted to know...
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From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Subject: Re: echo question
Organization: Draper Laboratory
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:14:00 GMT

Sergio gave me permission to repost his reply.  This is somewhat more
useful than Daniel Smith's reply. :-) = seb

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:59 EST
From: Sergio Gelato <SDRY@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>

>>> >        echo 'first:this=that=other+second:this=that=other+' | tr '=+'
 '\011\012'
>>
>>> Hardcoded octal ascii is "portable"???
>>> Escaping syntax in tr is "portable"???
>>
>>        OK, name an english-language version of Unix this'll bomb on.
>
>I haven't seen AIX/370, but I'm sure it'll bomb, being EBCDIC.

I just tried (AIX/370 1.2.1 (1300)), and it worked very nicely.
(OK, I didn't set the LANG environment variable to anything funny like
Kanji.) AIX/370 isn't EBCDIC, by the way. The kernel may output some
EBCDIC messages to the underlying VM system, but the character code
visible to users is ASCII (or some extension thereof).
--
Sergio Gelato <sdry@eagle.tc.cornell.edu>>
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From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: Baffled by ksh signal handling
Organization: Yale University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:29:57 GMT

Hi all,

Makin' myself a little dump-a-random-quote-to-a-pipe thingy. Here it is:

--- snip ---
#!/bin/ksh -p

action="$1"
file="$2"

trap "rm -f $file > /dev/null 2>&1; exit 0" 2

rm -f $file > /dev/null 2>&1
/etc/mknod $file p
while :; do
  eval $action >> $file
  sleep 1
done
--- snip ---

So why does this happen:

[dcs ~] pipe ls foo &
[2] 29707
[dcs ~] cat foo
bin
foo
lib
src
text
tutorial
ws
[dcs ~] killall -2 pipe
/usr/people/dcs/bin/pipe[11]: foo: cannot create
[2]    Done                   pipe ls foo

foo _is_ removed. So why doesn't it exit? And it didn't work (or rather
failed in the same way) when I put the trap stuff in a function and just
called the function from the trap.

Mail would be fine.

TIA,

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
Keywords: mail, sh, script
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:18:54 GMT

micah@hardy.u.washington.edu (Micah Anderson) writes:

>How can I tell where one message ends in mail and where one begins?
>There isn't any obvious delimeter when I cat my mailbox...

Instead of using cat or more on your mailbox use mail:
	mail -f mbox
Then it shows you the message headers and allows deletions, replies, etc.

BTW, seeing the other responses to the request (Where the hell did that 
"Henry the Eighth" junk come from????), am I way out of line here by simply
offering a simple suggestion?  ;)

-- 

	Mike Bandy
	bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
	Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Subject: Re: How to clear screen in sh ?
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:46:36 GMT

menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes:

>echo '^L' does not work perfectly for me.

use /bin/clear (path may be different on your machine)

or do you mean "refresh" the screen not "clear" ?
	
		fish
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