<dumb> how to clear scroll-back buffer in console/xterm?

[Frank Shute]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:50:09PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
>
> > Ctl-L does it for me in xterm. Might work in the console too.
> 
> Just clears the screen, not the scrollback buffer for me.  Must be
> some secret setting somewhere...
> 

Sorry Steve, I forgot to mention that I've got:

XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \
        Ctrl<KeyPress>l : clear-saved-lines()

in ~/.Xdefaults


Regards,

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 Frank 


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