From:	jt AT boxhill DOT com (Jason Tishler)
Subject:	Re: bash and the missing clear command
19 Feb 1997 12:55:44 -0800 :
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Valery Fine wrote: 
>   May be
> 
>   $ComSpec /c cls
> 
>    will be  better

The above will not work under bash because the definition of COMSPEC
(at least on my machine) is a Windows style pathname (eg.,
C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe).  Hence, bash will complain as follows:

    $ $COMSPEC /c cls
    bash.exe: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found

Jason

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