bash and the missing clear command

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dougk@primenet.com wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a "clear" command under bash that will clear
the screen in
> the same way that cls does in a DOS session.  All I can think
of at the
> moment is creating a function that echo's the ANSI clear screen control
> sequence, but would rather not make ansi.sys a requirement for this
> application.
> 
> Anyone tackle this problem already?
> 
> Doug
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The way i found to clear the screen is add an alias to the .bashrc simillar
to:

alias clear="command.com /c cls"

this seems to work fine under win95 as long as command.com is in your
PATH, however i'm not shure how you would do it under NT.