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<STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG> Library calls <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-PORTABILITY">PORTABILITY</a></H2><PRE>
These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
- The SVr4.0 manual says that these functions could return "a non-
- negative 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.
+ The SVr4.0 manual says that these functions could return "or a non-
+ negative integer if <STRONG>immedok</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,
the ability to do the equivalent of <STRONG>clearok(...,</STRONG> <STRONG>1)</STRONG> by saying
- <STRONG>touchwin(stdscr)</STRONG> or <STRONG>clear(stdscr)</STRONG>. This will not work under ncurses.
+ <STRONG>touchwin(stdscr)</STRONG> or <STRONG>clear(stdscr)</STRONG>. This will not work under <EM>ncurses</EM>.
This implementation, and others such as Solaris, sets the current
position to 0,0 after erasing via <STRONG>werase</STRONG> and <STRONG>wclear</STRONG>. That fact is not
-ncurses 6.4 2023-11-25 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.4 2023-12-16 <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>
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