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Re: usleep


i just looked it up in termcap, and your right!  it's esc [ 2 J (normally)
no wonder my screen clearing routines never work. soory for the
interuption. my fault.  


> ^L as a character doesn't clear the screen of a terminal (it does when
> you press ctrl-l). Try to put it in a file and then cat that file
> from a Unix shell.
> 
> Aleks
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > wait a sec.  i just found documentation saying that the lower charactors
> > were supported. "ff" (number twelve) i believe has been renamed "page".
> > therefore (write-char #\page) should clear the screen.  but it dosn't.
> > 
> > does guile set the screen to some strange mode uppon startup?


	Corey Sweeney