From: jt@boxhill.com (Jason Tishler) Subject: Re: bash and the missing clear command 19 Feb 1997 12:55:44 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <330B5ADB.6DDA.cygnus.gnu-win32@boxhill.com> References: <199702191658.RAA27552@sp072.cern.ch> Reply-To: jt@boxhill.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Valery Fine Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Valery Fine wrote: > May be > > $ComSpec /c cls > > will be better The above will not work under bash because the definition of COMSPEC (at least on my machine) is a Windows style pathname (eg., C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe). Hence, bash will complain as follows: $ $COMSPEC /c cls bash.exe: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found Jason -- Jason Tishler Phone: +1 (212) 989-4455 ext. 120 Box Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (212) 989-6817 161 Avenue of the Americas Email: jt@boxhill.com New York, NY 10013 USA WWW: http://www.boxhill.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".