[Techtalk] simple reference book on Linux

[Kai MacTane]

At 1/31/02 11:34 AM , Malcolm& wrote:
>clear current line. (ie. wipe everything back to the prompt as if you'd held
>down delete for a long time).

If you want to do this in a dialog box (say you'd typed a long string into 
a text field), I'd do Shift-Home (select to beginning of line), then Del.

But since you say "everything _back to the command prompt_", I suppose you 
want to do this in a DOS box under Windows. It seems the standard command 
prompt doesn't do this, but if you're already using doskey, Esc will clear 
the current line.

If you're not using doskey, I'd strongly advise it to avoid tearing your 
hair out from the lack of a command prompt history.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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