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From: soren AT wonderstorm DOT com
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 01:24:26 -0500
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Subject: clear entire 'doze console buffer?
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Hello,

This is not so much a question as a rumination and offering, but I 
am of course open to being told something I don't know.

Last time I checked the only way to clear the screen in Cygwin 
bash was the CTRL-SHIFT-L combination. And that only clears 
what's currently displayed, not the whole buffer ("offscreen" above 
the current scroll point). So I figured out a way to do this.

First I define a function suchly:

function Canonize  {  echo $1 | sed s@'\\'@'/'@g; }
(which can be useful on its own, but of course could be 'inlined' into 
the expression below as well).

Then I provide to bash this alias:

alias ncls="`cygpath -paw $(Canonize $COMSPEC)` /c cls"

This works.
  Anybody know something I don't, about another way?
      soren andersen


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