On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:14, Stuart Young wrote: 

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:36 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

quoted

There should be an ANSI escape sequence for resetting the scroll region.
Just send that to the console.

Yup there is. It's Esc [r , however this also returns the cursor to the top of 
the screen. You can use Esc [s & Esc [u to save and restore the current 
cursor position, so it's just a matter of putting them around it thus:
 Esc [s Esc [r Esc [u

Or with echo (in a bash script - \\'s to escape it from the shell):
 echo -ne \\033[s\\033[r\\033[u

Now there is a problem with this solution: This leaves the logo (and any 
boot-time drawn graphics in the unscrollable region) on the screen.

Should it? :)


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