Is there a key one can press to refresh a terminal based form screen?

[Bill Costigan]

When running sam or the initial HPUX install software on the console the screen can often get messed up when a message is displayed.

[Or you get disconnected while doing a remote install and have to reconnect to the MP]

I've often wondered if there was a simple key stroke or sequence that I could type that would refresh the screen to the way it should look.

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

try cntl l (control ell)

[Torsten.]

Hi Bill,

try CTRL k

[Bill Costigan]

Thank you. I'll try them both.

[Torsten.]

ooops, I hit the wrong key, sorry.

It's L.

[Bill Costigan]

Yep. It's cntl-L thanks again.

[Pete Randall]

Actually, I think "l" would work, sort of. In SAM, it brings up keyboard help and when you exit that, your original screen is refreshed. The same works if you pop out to a shell (F7) and then "exit" to get back to SAM.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

I'm having a bad day - meant to say K would work.

[Bill Costigan]

Pete and Torsten,

I wasn't trying to give you low points, I was just trying to give a single 10 points to each for the right answer.

Sounds like cntl-L is the way to go. I'm less concerned about SAM than I am about the screens when reloading a system. I want to be sure I'm seeing the right stuff when remotely recovering as system. Hate to pick the wrong disk are define the wrong size for a file system.

[Jan van den Ende]

Bill,

I hate to be a spoil-sport, but this is _entirely_ application dependent (where the SHELL or other command language processor can also be the application)...

I have in my direct recollection ctrl-R, ctrl-W, ctrl-V, up-arrow, ctrl-TAB, ctrl-BREAK, ctrl-L ... ; (in various OSes and applications.

And I am sure that list is NOT complete.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Dennis Handly]

>jpe: but this is _entirely_ application dependent

yes. vi uses control-L.

[Bill Costigan]

Nothing is ever easy :(

So does anyone know what sequence can used by the configuration tool that runs when you are doing a recovery from an ingite tape?

(The application that lets you change filesystem sizes, add disks, etc.)

As I was saying earlier, I was reloading a server remotely via a VPN that had the habit of disconnecting.

It disconnected in the middle of changing file sizes. I reconnected and of course only got pieces of the screen. I didn't want to say [OK] unless I was sure what I was saying OK to. With enough tabs and cancels I got the screen to a usable state. But I wanted to have a key sequence to refresh the whole screen the next time I ran into a similar situation.

[Torsten.]

It's CTRL l too.

[Bill Costigan]

Excellent - Thank you again