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Re: getting the sources

vipin aravind wrote:

> oops   for  the  2nd  part of the  question I find a
> clearn  command  whcih does  the same thing as clear  command.
> Was  it intentionally renamed?

Yes.  The ncurses package provides a clear.exe command -- but since that 
conflicts with the clear.exe command provided by the "clear" package, the 
version provided by the ncurses package was renamed to clearn.exe

--Chuck


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