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cls on freedos does not clean the screen but only moves the prompt up why?

> cls on freedos does not clean the screen but only moves the prompt up why?

Not sure, haven't looked. Is it trying ANSI escapes or doing something video-card specific?

IIRC, years ago, Mateusz patched it for his CGA/8086 machine (for Svarog86 ??). Re-reading some old 2015 email implies yes, see SF.net here. Also, there I mentioned some other CLS patches.

But also make sure (if you can) to also try the latest prerelease (0.84-pre7 from Dec. 2019) on Github.

> > cls on freedos does not clean the screen but only moves the prompt up
> why?
>
> Not sure, haven't looked. Is it trying ANSI escapes or doing something
> video-card specific?
>
> IIRC, years ago, Mateusz patched it for his CGA/8086 machine (for Svarog86
> ??). Re-reading some old 2015 email implies yes, see SF.net
> here.
> Also, there I mentioned some other CLS
> patches.
>
> But also make sure (if you can) to also try the latest prerelease
> (0.84-pre7 from Dec. 2019) on
> Github.


I created my own custom clear.exe.