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His complaint arose because of a Unix-centric item in the FAQ, but he also noticed that http://faq.perl.org also had some weirdness. I got onto IRC, found Robrt to look at the faq.perl.org problem, got some email, and some resolution, and emailed the original guy to let him know what was what.
The result? He's now a happy camper, and we have one less person running around yelling "Perl sucks!". All in a day's work. I read in some blog discussion or newsgroup that 'cls' is not really a callable command in Windows, it is a hack. Which is why it doesn't work. I will try and remember the conversation... Or maybe I don't understand his problem... If I run: That clears my screen. So maybe I don't know his problem. I think this is it. 'cls' is not a program like cls.exe or cls.com but it is a command available to the CMD environment shell. Therefore, you cannot run it with `cls` because Windows doesn't know what to do with that. You have to do something like: `cmd
I may be wrong...
sigzero on 2005-12-13T19:57:32
Re:I may be wrong...
sigzero on 2005-12-13T20:04:12
system($clear);
Re:I may be wrong...
sigzero on 2005-12-13T20:19:21
Win32::Console or Term::InKey
runrig on 2005-12-13T22:08:00
The $x = `cls` trick doesn't work on Windows, but there's Win32::Console, which is non-portable and a little awkward, but someone wrapped the clear screen function into a Unix/Windows portable module, Term::InKey.
RE: faq.perl.org being borked
stu42j on 2005-12-14T20:10:50
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html
Bravo!
n1vux on 2005-12-14T22:36:30
Yeah Merlyn!
