-</PRE>
-<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
- <STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in
- the environment for the terminal type and then in the <STRONG>ter-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>minfo</STRONG> database to figure out how to clear the screen.
+</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG>clear</STRONG> clears your screen if this is possible, including
+ its scrollback buffer (if the extended "E3" capability is
+ defined). <STRONG>clear</STRONG> looks in the environment for the terminal
+ type and then in the <STRONG>terminfo</STRONG> database to determine how to
+ clear the screen.