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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:  Re: Clearing the Cygwin console
Date:  Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:38:49 +0100
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* Thomas Wiedmann (Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:25:21 +0100)
> on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content
> usually can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. None of these
> commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message
>   bash: clear: command not found
> is returned.
> 
> How can a console used with Cygwin be cleared?

With the "clear" command. clear is part of ncurses and you have to 
install it if it is not yet installed.

Thorsten


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