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Re: How to clear the screen (again)?
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: How to clear the screen (again)?
- From: Glenn Spell <glenn@gs.fay.nc.us>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:00:46 -0400
- Organization: the aerie
- References: <37B71CB3.BF6CC4A5@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
On 15 Aug 1999 around 4:01PM (-0400) Leo Jingyu LEE wrote:
> I am running cygwin on win98 and trying to find a command to clear
> the screen for me. I have searched through the mailing list
> archive for answers. But ^L as suggested by Ian Zimmerman doesn't
> work. I also
CTRL-L _should_ work from within 'bash'.
> downloaded the ncurses package as suggested by Michael Hirmke, but
> as the README file says, it seems to work on windows NT only. When
> I try to use it, it gives me an error read as: 'cygwin': unknown
> terminal type. Anymore helps?
I don't know of a terminfo entry for "cygwin". When using ncurses, or
the 'clear' command that comes with ncurses, you'll probably want to
use a TERM of "linux".
"command.com /c cls" should also clear the display from within bash.
-glenn
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