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Thanks, that is helpful.  And I don't see much room for improvement in
the "clear" port, it could not be simpler.  Banner is not among my
needs right now, so I did not DL it.

You should definitely contribute "clear" to the DJGPP v2gnu collection.

However, I do need ANSI.SYS (or the TSR NNANSI.COM) if I want my
application bash scripts to be able to use color highlighting and
column specification.  They *can* run without ANSI highlighting, but it
is much less helpful to the end-user.

Unfortunately, I found a more serious problem.  This project also
involves using some non-GNU executables compiled under Cygwin, and when
those try to run under DJGPP bash (even after adjusting the PATH to
include the Cygwin binary directories behind the DJGPP one) I got some
serious Cygwin library errors (something about "stdio_init" not being
able to (re?)assign an input FD, so the program could not access its
control file data.  I didn't save the messages, sorry.

I have had to give up on using DJGPP for now due to these errors, I am
sorry to say.  Recompiling the non-GNU executables under DJGPP GCC is
not currently an option for this project.

Regards,

Peter