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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:14:50 -0400
To: Leo Jingyu LEE <ljlee AT engmail DOT uwaterloo DOT ca>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: How to clear the screen (again)?
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In-Reply-To: <37B8309D.3E2D8C0B@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>; from Leo Jingyu LEE on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:39:09AM -0400

Add a '-n' to the echo.

-chris

On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Leo Jingyu LEE wrote:
>It is faster than other approaches as I tried, but it leaves an extra
>blank line on the top of my screen.  BTW, I am running this on win98.
>More comments?
>
>kulack AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote:
>> Ctrl-L doesn't work for me either, but this works great on NT.
>> Quite a bit faster than the command.com trick.
>>
>> alias cls='echo -e "\E[2J"'

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