Re: screen bugs/features

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From: Systems Staff
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1989 00:51

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In article <4533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: In article <4370@drivax.DRI> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
: : programmers of many popular packages (including vi & rn) assume that
: : the variable "cl" homes the cursor.
: 
: "Assume" nothin'!  Every system I've used documents "cl" as
: 
: 	Clear screen and home cursor
: 

I just looked in the 4.2BSD termcap(5) manual entry and it just says
"Clear screen" for cl. Then I looked in the 4.3 Manual entry and it
says "Clear screen and home cursor" so this matter has come up before
and been dealt with.

Please stop beating this dead horse.

 Thos Sumner       (thos@cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos@ucsfcca
 (The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root
From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: screen bugs/features
Summary: Clarification was made in 4.3 manual
Message-ID: <1709@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 00:51:00 GMT
References: <4318@drivax.DRI> <2800015@kailand> <4370@drivax.DRI> <4533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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