From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: clear screen in bash ?
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:14:56 GMT
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Colin Forster <colin AT imrworldwide DOT com> wrote:
> 1) alias cls='echo -n ^[[2J' # the ^[ is an esc (in vi I use ^V followed
> by # ^[ where ^ is holding down the cntrl key)

This (and the other options too) only works when ANSI.SYS has been
loaded, which is not always true.

alias cls='command.com /c cls'

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