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On 6/26/2011 10:21 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote:I guess this is a peculiarity of cygwin packaging of ncurses. I see no clearw on other systems, and there is no reason for it because wide characters are not involved in the function of 'clear'.No, there are now two different ncurses packages: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 this was a filenaming typo.
The basic ncurses, which provides (among other things) /bin/clear.exe.
Then, there's the version that supports wide characters, called 'ncursesw'. To avoid conflicts, this package delievers /bin/clearw.exe (basically, all the exe's are renamed to carry a 'w' suffix).
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