Re: clear has been named clearw?

2011-06-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.06.2011 19:40, schrieb Charles Wilson: On 6/26/2011 10:21 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: After some web surfing about how to clear the screen in cygwin, I installed ncurses. /bin/clear.exe is not there, but /bin/clearw.exe is. Nothing comes up on a search for clearw either in the mailing list

Re: clear has been named clearw?

2011-06-28 Thread Ken Jackson
On 6/26/2011 2:21 PM, Andrew Hancock wrote: After some web surfing about how to clear the screen in cygwin, I installed ncurses. /bin/clear.exe is not there, but ... I solve that with this in my ~/.bashrc file: alias clear='echo -n -e "\e[2J\e[H"' -Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygw

Re: clear has been named clearw?

2011-06-28 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/26/2011 10:21 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: > After some web surfing about how to clear the screen in cygwin, I > installed ncurses. /bin/clear.exe is not there, but /bin/clearw.exe > is. Nothing comes up on a search for clearw either in the mailing > list archives or google. Just wondering if

RE: clear

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 August 2007 10:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have just reinstalled cygwin from scratch (deleted c:\cygwin directory) > and noticed that the clear command was not in /usr/bin anymore. > > In Cygwin Package List, it says that clear was removed and that ncurses > should be used