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With that alias, I get ...
RichardQ AT richardquadling ~$ alias cs='echo -n "\ec"'
RichardQ AT richardquadling ~$ cs\ecRichardQ AT richardquadling ~$
I'm using the standard bash shell. The shortcut icon is the Cygwin logo.

On 24/02/06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) <gsw AT lovespam DOT com> wrote:> For me, that has to read  'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P>> 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"'>> YMMV, of course.>> gsw>> --> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/>>

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