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From: Navindra Umanee
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00
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Last week's gem was http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/ (including such
articles as "my employer can blow me" and "really bad attitude").

This week's is (and, as someone pointed out, notice the totally
superfluous 'exit' at the end):

[skinner] [/u2/ugrad/navindra] uname -a
SunOS skinner 5.6 Generic_105181-06 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
[skinner] [/u2/ugrad/navindra] cat /usr/bin/clear
#!/usr/bin/sh
#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
#         All Rights Reserved

#       THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
#       The copyright notice above does not evidence any
#       actual or intended publication of such source code.

#ident  "@(#)clear.sh   1.8     96/10/14 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.3   */
#       Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
#         All Rights Reserved

#       This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
#       Corporation and should be treated as Confidential.

# clear the screen with terminfo.
# if an argument is given, print the clear string for that tty type

/usr/bin/tput ${1:+-T$1} clear 2> /dev/null
exit
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From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: gems
Date: 1998/08/31
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