Re: How do I clear a terminal screen?

Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 08:01 am, Bill Wesson kindly wrote:
>
>
>>Are you sure you are at a terminal prompt?
>>Try:
>> quit
>> exit
>> help
>>
>>Bill
>>
>
> Problem was I couldn't get a terminal prompt- I lost it- so none of those
> commands worked. Ken recommended "Ctrl+d" and that got a prompt back. Thanks
> for trying to help me.
>
> Siri Amrit
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Sounds to me like the command you issued was reading stdin from the
terminal. There are lots of ways to make this happen. Ctrl+d is the
standard end-of-file character, which terminated the input.

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