This may start a war, but what the heck ... Do yourself a big favour and drop Hyperterminal ;) What a piece of rubbish. Get your hands on a real terminal emulator, such as Teraterm, available free off the Internet at http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html. This allows you to save your settings in a .INI file, and doesn't annoyingly ask you every time you start it to enter a name for the connection. If you use VT100, the command sequence stated will work but does not reset the cursor to start of page. Add a carriage return at the end, i.e. [2J Rgs Ian -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Sid Weaver Sent: Friday, 28 February 2003 3:14 am To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Clearing Screen In a message dated 02/27/2003 11:01:53 Eastern Standard Time, ned@BIKE-NOMAD.COM writes: > It depends on what terminal emulation you're using. > On the VT-100, its > > [2J > > where of course is the ASCII ESC character (decimal 27). > > So you just have to figure out how to output that sequence in your > language. > I'm using PBasic and displaying either with Hyperterminal or the debug window in the Stamp Editor. Chip is a 16F876. Any suggestions? Sid -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topic -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics