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11 years ago

How to clear the Nios II console?

Hi, I'm implementing a Nios II on a DE0-nano board. My C code is executed by Eclipse and a console is accessible to print things (with the printf instruction). I'd like to clear this console but I...
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11 years ago

I haven't checked lately to confirm this, but last time I looked (years ago) the console in Eclipse wasn't a full terminal emulator. In other words it didn't support operations like clearing the screen. If you want to do that you need a terminal emulator program like PuTTY, TeraTerm etc. These typically implement the ANSI standard terminal command set like the windows command shell does.