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 this was a filenaming > typo. >
No, there are now two different ncurses packages: 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). -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
