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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:25:16 -0400
From:	Leo Jingyu LEE <ljlee AT engmail DOT uwaterloo DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: How to clear the screen (again)?
References:	<852567CF DOT 00521F22 DOT 00 AT D51MTA10 DOT pok DOT ibm DOT com> <37B8309D DOT 3E2D8C0B AT engmail DOT uwaterloo DOT ca> <19990816131450 DOT C1087 AT cygnus DOT com>

Thanks.  I have just done this by reading the help page of 'echo'

-- Leo

Chris Faylor wrote:

> Add a '-n' to the echo.
>
> -chris
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Leo Jingyu LEE wrote:
> >It is faster than other approaches as I tried, but it leaves an extra
> >blank line on the top of my screen.  BTW, I am running this on win98.
> >More comments?
> >
> >kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote:
> >> Ctrl-L doesn't work for me either, but this works great on NT.
> >> Quite a bit faster than the command.com trick.
> >>
> >> alias cls='echo -e "\E[2J"'


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