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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How Does One Clear the Terminal Window?
Date: 1 Feb 2014 16:47:41 GMT
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On 2014-02-01, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <ApydnbjeGPvwhHDPnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>  Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2014.02.01, 10:06 , Jolly Roger wrote:
>> > On 2014-02-01, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> >> In article <alpine.OSX.2.11.1401312131040.57398@mako.ath.cx>,
>> >>   David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> That's the shell's command history, not the scrollback buffer of the
>> >> Terminal window.
>> >
>> > Well, it appears that despite Davoud wording it the way he did in his
>> > initial post ("in the terminal window"), what he actually wanted was to
>> > clear the command history.
>> 
>> He referenced the "entire ancient history", actually.
>
> It's still unclear. In one reply he said that Cmd-K does what he wants, 
> but he was looking for an equivalent shell command. That clears the 
> emulator's scrollback buffer.
>
> But he also replied "Bingo!" to a post that explained how to delete the 
> shell command history file.
>
> So either he misunderstood one of the replies, or he's contradicting 
> himself.

Yerp! : )  Anyhow, I'm done here.

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