ChevyCowboy15

i am having a problem with clearing my screen on Linux...

i have been creating a small dumb program that does nothing but i am just trying to get practice programming and i have been using windows XP and i was using system("cls") to clear the screen
and now that i am back home and on my own computer i am programming on Linux and i couldnt get the program to compile because it came up with errors where ever i put the system("cls") and i also used the system("clear") but it also brought up errors

these are the errors:

login.cpp:22:10: warning: character constant too long for its type
login.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
login.cpp:22: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘const char*’
login.cpp:22: error: initializing argument 1 of ‘int system(const char*)’

am i using the wrong functions or am i missing something??

thanks for any help on this

nigel

Please post the code to this program so we can look for the errors.

Sorrofix

Naturally, you'll have to post your code if you want any kind of help with your it. Our psychological powers have been lacking lately.

By the way, I'd like to throw in that I highly recommend against clearing the screen. Here are some reasons why:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post66701-7.html

Jabo

I thought programmers were anti-social by default...

ChevyCowboy15

can anyone tell me the command for clearing the screen in linux?
i tried

system("cls")

system("ckear")

neither one of those works

nigel

Why don't you post the goddamn code? And the latter should work, assuming you meant "clear".

Ancient Dragon

You do it the same way that you would do it from the command shell. There is no such shell command as "ckear".

Another way is to use curses library for screen output.

Third way is to use vt100 api calls.

Fourth way is to use termcap function calls.

Fifth way is to print a bunch of '\n' characters.

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