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Tony_G.

Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:42 pm


Getting Cygwin to recognize 'clear' command

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Hello :)

This is day one of my learning how to code ;). I've run into a little problem.

The book I'm reading (C Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Vine), is just starting off with some simple Cygwin commands, and one of them is the $ clear command. Whenever I type in 'clear', it says command not found.

I downloaded Cygwin twice from the official site, and it says that there's nothing new to install, so I know I'm not missing a file or anything. I also went into the System Path and put in ;C:\cygwin\bin like the book said to, but that didn't fix it either.

My computer is running on Windows XP.

Thanks!


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Tony_G.

Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:50 pm



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Oop--snag number two:

when I type in 'man' to get to the manual it says:

Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf.


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wtd

Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:37 pm



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Are you certain you ran the setup fully?  I did the same just a week or so ago and I have clear.

At the prompt try: "which clear"


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Tony_G.

Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:14 pm



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Yes, I'm pretty sure.


Garant Family@Garant ~
$ which clear
clear: Command not found.


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wtd

Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:29 pm



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How odd.


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md

Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:44 am



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If you don't mind downloading lots and lots of stuff you'll almost certainly never use you can always run cygwin setup and install everything. That *should* fix your problem.


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Tony_G.

Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:54 pm



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That's the problem--I already have.


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md

Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:34 pm



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sounds like an install problem then. Uinstall everything; then delete the cygwin folder and install again. So long as everything that was downloaded is still cached your good.