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-.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey *
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.\" *
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-.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.23 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.24 2021/11/14 00:33:00 tom Exp $
.TH @CLEAR@ 1 ""
.\" these would be fallbacks for DS/DE,
.\" but groff changed the meaning of the macros.
\fB@CLEAR@\fR [\fB\-T\fR\fItype\fR] [\fB\-V\fP] [\fB\-x\fP]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
-\fB@CLEAR@\fR clears your screen if this is possible,
-including its scrollback buffer
+\fB@CLEAR@\fR clears your terminal's screen if this is possible,
+including the terminal's scrollback buffer
(if the extended \*(``E3\*('' capability is defined).
\fB@CLEAR@\fR looks in the environment for the terminal type
given by the environment variable \fBTERM\fP,