[Soekris] Clear screen on boot

[Mr. Bill]

Hello RW,

I use OpenBSD cu(1), which is of course fully featured and excellently
documented. I guess at the time I was pointed at an _option_ and blindly
looked for a command option. Then I found that shell redirection served
my purpose (boot logging) equally well. But of course you're absolutely
right..


Bill

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 17:57 +1100, RW wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:17:28 -0400, Mr. Bill wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 09:22 -0500, Ted Phelps wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> Don't tip/cu have any way of logging output to a file?  Certainly
> >> minicom does and I've used it in precisely the situation you describe.
> >> 
> >
> >No, cu(1) doesn't. When I first started using cu(1), I spent quite a bit
> >of time looking for that elusive "serial output capture" option (manual,
> >internet, /usr/share/doc,..). 
> 8><----<snip!>
> 
> You must have had lousy man pages for cu or it was a lousy version of
> cu.
> Look in man for the ~s command used to set variables once connected and
> look through the variables for "be" (beautify), "record" (=filename)
> and "script".
> 
> If your manpage doesn't have these try hitting ~? whilst connected to
> see what escape commands are valid and ~v to show all values of
> variables if they are set.
> 
> "~s be" will set beautify to TRUE (dropping unprintable chars from
> record file)
> "~s !be" will turn beautify off.
> 
> Also note that there is a way (~C) to fork a child process to do stuff
> like X-modem.
> 
> cu is olde worlde Unix. It is intimidating but potent and requires
> users to have a good memory of some organic variety. You choose: grey
> matter or ink on paper. Everybody needs his own subset of commands
> noted well.
> 
> If you need a good manpage try http://tinyurl.com/2bh8n7
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Rod/
> 
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> 
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> 
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