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Subject:	RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.
Date:	Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:28:56 -0000
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On 24 February 2006 15:05, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> I generally use a line like this:
>>   alias cls='cmd -c cls'
> 
> For me, that has to read  'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P

  Heh, for me too.

> This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally
> broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c
> (reset terminal) control works under both RXVT and standard
> "Command" windows. It resets the scrollbar in addition to
> clearing the screen.
> 
> So I just changed my "clear screen" alias to:
> 
>   alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'

  For me, that has to read 'echo -e "\033c"' or it doesn't work. :-P~~~

> YMMV, of course.

  It certainly does: the ESC-c sequence doesn't reset the scrollback buffer
position for me.

  Of course, I'm using a DOS prompt and CYGWIN=notty.  YMMV!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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