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Pat Maddox wrote:
| No, it's not meant to clear the buffer.  If you need to clear the
| buffer, just cat a really, really long file.

In this case, running yes(1) is more convenient.

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Marc Bevand                              http://epita.fr/~bevand_m
Computer Science School EPITA - System, Network and Security Dept.