On 24 February 2006 15:05, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> I generally use a line like this: >> alias cls='cmd -c cls' > > For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P
Heh, for me too. > This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally > broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c > (reset terminal) control works under both RXVT and standard > "Command" windows. It resets the scrollbar in addition to > clearing the screen. > > So I just changed my "clear screen" alias to: > > alias cs='echo -n "\ec"' For me, that has to read 'echo -e "\033c"' or it doesn't work. :-P~~~ > YMMV, of course. It certainly does: the ESC-c sequence doesn't reset the scrollback buffer position for me. Of course, I'm using a DOS prompt and CYGWIN=notty. YMMV! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/