[MLUG] clearing the screen without losing data

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What's the trick?  It seems to me that there are two ways that screens are 
cleared in a terminal when I enter "clear" or type Ctrl-L.  Both ways 
leave the prompt at the top of an empty screen, but in some terminals 
everything that was on the screen is deleted and in others it is just 
scrolled up so that I can look at it if I want to.  I greatly prefer the 
latter method.  How do I ensure that the scroll-up method, rather than the 
delete method, is the one used?

This has bugged me for years.

I'm doing some testing now.  Here are some examples:

PuTTY bash $TERM=rxvt
This does the scrolling method of screen clearing.

I'm not seeing it in rxvt or xterm windows on Linux or Solaris, but I'm 
pretty sure that I have seen it somewhere other than PuTTY.

Anyway, it would be good to know.

Thanks.

Mike

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