clear screen

[Shadow]

Earlier, I was doing a little bit of scanning through the boards ( search feature ) and I was blown away by the amount of clear screen posts.

Anyways, I have been able to get all sorts of ways to work for me since the first time I tried. I have a question though.

Which is better, A, B, or C?

A.
system("cls");

B.
clrscr();

C.
spawnl(P_WAIT, "cls", NULL);

System, is slow, right? Alot of you say system crawls. Will CLS's speed change if you send it through spawn?

[Nutshell]

Would you mind telling me what is spawnl ?

thnx

[Shadow]

http://www.cprogramming.com/boardfaq.html#execs

[Shadow]

Hm, my version of spawnl doesn't work. Spawn is used for executing programs. Quite possibly you can't do what I was trying ....

[stautze]

Both of A and B are great if you compile in DOS, but I think most of the questions come from UNIX people.

There ain't no easy way in UNIX, so I think clearscreen is still a legitimate question for people even after reading the FAQ because the only solution given is to throw out the monitor, print '\n' (which is a joke...i think), or use curses.

[Prelude]

>Which is better, A, B, or C?
What about D: None of the above?
A) Nasty
B) Nonstandard
C) Nonstandard

>so I think clearscreen is still a legitimate question for people even after reading the FAQ
The best answer is that you rarely need to clear the screen, if ever.

-Prelude

[Shadow]

Ok Prelude, what is your prefered way of doing it, when you have to?

[Prelude]

When I have to it's something to do with these boards, so I use the Windows API option from the FAQ.

-Prelude

[Shadow]

That's the only one I use.