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Re: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.
Aha!
You meant cmd /c cls, not cmd -c cls.
Ta da!
Working now!
On 24/02/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 24 February 2006 12:11, Richard Quadling wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm using Cygwin and have the clear package installed (1.0-2 according
> > the cygcheck.out file).
> >
> > When I run clear, my screen clears! Keep reading!!!!
> >
> > I run Cygwin in a window on Windows XP. The window is BIG (I like big
> > windows). There is also a nice long scrollbar on the side so I can
> > scroll up and down for a LOT of output.
> >
> > The trouble is, clear only clears what I would call the visible part
> > of the window.
> >
> > Is there a way to clear the entire window? That is including the bits
> > which you can see when you scroll up again?
>
>
> How bizarre. For me, clear does blank the whole lot but it doesn't return
> the cursor to the 'top-of-screen'; after running clear, I can still scroll up,
> but all I see is blank stuff. That's in a bash shell in a DOS box with
> CYGWIN=notty BTW. I generally use a line like this:
>
> alias cls='cmd -c cls'
>
> in my .bashrc to provide a handy clear-everything command.
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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