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</PRE><H2><a name="h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></H2><PRE>
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-erase_werase">erase/werase</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>erase</STRONG> and <STRONG>werase</STRONG> routines copy blanks to every position in the win-
dow, clearing the screen.
- The <STRONG>clear</STRONG> and <STRONG>wclear</STRONG> routines are like <STRONG>erase</STRONG> and <STRONG>werase</STRONG>, but they also
- call <STRONG>clearok</STRONG>, so that the screen is cleared completely on the next call
- to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> for that window and repainted from scratch.
+ Blanks created by erasure have the current background rendition (as set
+ by <STRONG><A HREF="curs_bkgd.3x.html">wbkgdset(3x)</A></STRONG>) merged into them.
+
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-clear_wclear">clear/wclear</a></H3><PRE>
+ The <STRONG>clear</STRONG> and <STRONG>wclear</STRONG> routines are like <STRONG>erase</STRONG> and <STRONG>werase</STRONG>, but they also
+ call <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">clearok(3x)</A></STRONG>, so that the screen is cleared completely on the next
+ call to <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> for that window and repainted from scratch.
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-clrtobot_wclrtobot">clrtobot/wclrtobot</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>clrtobot</STRONG> and <STRONG>wclrtobot</STRONG> routines erase from the cursor to the end of
- screen. That is, they erase all lines below the cursor in the window.
- Also, the current line to the right of the cursor, inclusive, is
+ screen. That is, they erase all lines below the cursor in the window.
+ Also, the current line to the right of the cursor, inclusive, is
erased.
+
+</PRE><H3><a name="h3-clrtoeol_wclrtoeol">clrtoeol/wclrtoeol</a></H3><PRE>
The <STRONG>clrtoeol</STRONG> and <STRONG>wclrtoeol</STRONG> routines erase the current line to the right
of the cursor, inclusive, to the end of the current line.
- Blanks created by erasure have the current background rendition (as set
- by <STRONG>wbkgdset</STRONG>) merged into them.
-
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></H2><PRE>
All routines return the integer <STRONG>OK</STRONG> on success and <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> on failure.
error conditions.
The SVr4.0 manual says that these functions could return "a non-nega-
- tive integer if <STRONG>immedok</STRONG> is set", referring to the return-value of <STRONG>wre-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>fresh</STRONG>. In that implementation, <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> would return a count of the
+ tive integer if <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">immedok(3x)</A></STRONG> is set", referring to the return-value of
+ <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>. In that implementation, <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG> would return a count of the
number of characters written to the terminal.
Some historic curses implementations had, as an undocumented feature,
<ul>
<li><a href="#h2-NAME">NAME</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
-<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h2-DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#h3-erase_werase">erase/werase</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-clear_wclear">clear/wclear</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-clrtobot_wclrtobot">clrtobot/wclrtobot</a></li>
+<li><a href="#h3-clrtoeol_wclrtoeol">clrtoeol/wclrtoeol</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
<li><a href="#h2-RETURN-VALUE">RETURN VALUE</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
<li><a href="#h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></li>