[comp.os.vms] How do you NOT write a <RETURN>?

u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek) (05/04/87)

In article <1680@megaron.arizona.edu>
robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek) writes:
>> 	$ clear == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT esc_chr,""[H"",esc_chr,""[2J"""
>I have been using the above type of statements to do clear screens, but
>they really leave the cursor on the second row since there is a
><return> effectively at the end of the write sys$output.
>Is there someway around that?  (In Unix echo -n does the job.)

Try: Set Terminal/Width=80

robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek) (05/04/87)

In article <102@blic.BLI.COM>, garvey@blic.BLI.COM (Robert Garvey) writes:
> 
> This is an example of how that could be done:
> 	$ clear == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT esc_chr,""[H"",esc_chr,""[2J"""

I have been using the above type of statements to do clear screens, but
they really leave the cursor on the second row since there is a
<return> effectively at the end of the write sys$output.

Is there someway around that?  (In Unix echo -n does the job.)
-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721