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<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.
+ <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.
<STRONG>clear</STRONG> ignores any command-line parameters that may be
present.
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="tput.1.html">tput(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="terminfo.5.html">terminfo(5)</A></STRONG>
- This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.6 (patch 20081011).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 5.9 (patch 20131221).