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-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
+.\" Copyright 2018,2020 Thomas E. Dickey *
+.\" Copyright 1998-2016,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. *
.\" *
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a *
.\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the *
.\" authorization. *
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-.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.19 2017/11/18 23:51:59 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.23 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
.TH @CLEAR@ 1 ""
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.\" but groff changed the meaning of the macros.
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.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fB@CLEAR@\fR clears your screen if this is possible,
-including its scrollback buffer (if the extended \*(``E3\*('' capability is defined).
+including its 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,
and then in the
although it was cited in the Red Hat bug report (#683733)
which led to the change.
.bP
-Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature. But the
+Again, a few other terminal developers adopted the feature.
+But the
next relevant step was a change to the \fBclear\fP program in 2013
to incorporate this extension.
.bP