getting 'clear' to work in Emacs shell

GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-27 on buffy GNU bash, version 3.2.51(24)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 Microsoft Windows XP Pro - Version 2002, SP3 The 'clear' work's in a Cygwin Bash session, c106...@usliny2r86krp8 ~ $ alias clear a

cygserver shuts down 'unexpectedly

Is there a timeout for cygserver? After running for a while, I get the following in the terminal: $ cygserver: All pending requests processed cygserver: No longer accepting requests - cygwin will operate in daemonless mode cygserver: All outstanding process-cache activities completed cygserver: