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  2. CLS (command) - Wikipedia

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    The command is available in MS-DOS versions 2 (1983) and later. [5] While the ultimate origins of using the three-character string CLS as the command to clear the screen likely predate Microsoft's use, this command was present before its MS-DOS usage, in the embedded ROM BASIC dialects Microsoft wrote for early 8-bit microcomputers (such as TRS-80 Color BASIC), where it served the same purpose.

  3. curses (programming library) - Wikipedia

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    curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100). [2] ncurses is the approved replacement for 4.4BSD ...

  4. ANSI escape code - Wikipedia

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    Software such as the Python colorama package [8] or Cygwin modified text in-process as it was sent to the console, extracting the ANSI Escape sequences and emulating them with Windows calls. In 2016, Microsoft released the Windows 10 version 1511 update which unexpectedly implemented support for ANSI escape sequences, over three decades after ...

  5. Stack trace - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a stack trace (also called stack backtrace [1] or stack traceback [2]) is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the execution of a program. When a program is run, memory is often dynamically allocated in two places: the stack and the heap. Memory is continuously allocated on a stack but not on a heap.

  6. Command-line completion - Wikipedia

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    The cmd.exe command processor of Windows NT-based systems supports basic completion. It is possible to use a separate key-binding for matching directory names only. cmd.exe /F:ON enables file and directory name completion characters (^F and ^D by default).

  7. del (command) - Wikipedia

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    The command is available for various operating systems including DOS, Microware OS-9, [1] IBM OS/2, [2] Microsoft Windows [3] and ReactOS. [4] It is analogous to the Unix rm command and to the Stratus OpenVOS delete_file and delete_dircommands. [5] DEC RT-11, [6] OS/8, [7] RSX-11, [8] and OpenVMS [9] also provide the delete command which can be ...

  8. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    Command-line interpreters allow users to issue various commands in a very efficient (and often terse) way. This requires the user to know the names of the commands and their parameters, and the syntax of the language that is interpreted. The Unix #! mechanism and OS/2 EXTPROC command facilitate the passing of batch files to external processors ...

  9. Windows Console - Wikipedia

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    Windows Console is the infrastructure for console applications in Microsoft Windows. An instance of a Windows Console has a screen buffer and an input buffer . It allows console apps to run inside a window or in hardware text mode (so as to occupy the entire screen).