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-<H1>clear 1</H1>
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-<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
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<STRONG>clear</STRONG> - clear the terminal screen
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-<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
+<H2><a name="h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></H2><PRE>
<STRONG>clear</STRONG>
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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.
+<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.
<STRONG>clear</STRONG> ignores any command-line parameters that may be
present.
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-<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
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<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 20080621).
+ This describes <STRONG>ncurses</STRONG> version 6.0 (patch 20150905).
<STRONG><A HREF="clear.1.html">clear(1)</A></STRONG>
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