From: "Thomas A. Reilly" Date: 2002-05-16T01:47:07+09:00 Subject: Re: clearing screen Using the following program Cesc = 27.chr print "#{Cesc}[2J" print "Hello world\n" Ruby version 1.4.3 (1999-12-08) [i386-cygwin] clears the screen Ruby version 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-mswin32] does not. Why? Any suggested fix? Thanks