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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:40:05 +0000
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On 6/26/2011 2:21 PM, Andrew Hancock wrote:
> After some web surfing about how to clear the screen in cygwin, I
> installed ncurses.  /bin/clear.exe is not there, but  ...

I solve that with this in my ~/.bashrc file:

alias clear='echo -n -e "\e[2J\e[H"'

-Ken

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