Re: Clear the Screen

From: Anthony Borla (ajborla_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 01/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:28:43 GMT

"Christian" <javauser@emailuser.net> wrote in message
news:32330a83.0401081855.47512efc@posting.google.com...
>
> Printing out the form-feed character will clear the screen
>
> System.out.print("\f");
>
> Hope this helps!
>

Sadly, it doesn't do as you expect - it's behaviour various with the
platform. Nice try, though :)

Cheers,

Anthony Borla

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