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- <STRONG>erase</STRONG>, <STRONG>werase</STRONG>, <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclear</STRONG>, <STRONG>clrtobot</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclrtobot</STRONG>, <STRONG>clr-</STRONG>
- <STRONG>toeol</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclrtoeol</STRONG> - clear all or part of a <STRONG>curses</STRONG> window
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+ <STRONG>erase</STRONG>, <STRONG>werase</STRONG>, <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclear</STRONG>, <STRONG>clrtobot</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclrtobot</STRONG>,
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<STRONG>#</STRONG> <STRONG>include</STRONG> <STRONG><curses.h></STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>erase(void);</STRONG>
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The <STRONG>erase</STRONG> and <STRONG>werase</STRONG> routines copy blanks to every posi-
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- All routines return the integer <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. The SVr4.0 manual
- says "or a non-negative integer if <STRONG>immedok</STRONG> is set", but
- this appears to be an error.
+<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. The SVr4.0 manual says "or a non-negative inte-
+ ger if <STRONG>immedok</STRONG> is set", but this appears to be an error.
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+ X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementa-
+ tion, functions using a window pointer parameter return an
+ error if it is null.
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Note that <STRONG>erase</STRONG>, <STRONG>werase</STRONG>, <STRONG>clear</STRONG>, <STRONG>wclear</STRONG>, <STRONG>clrtobot</STRONG>, and <STRONG>clr-</STRONG>
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These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard,
Issue 4. The standard specifies that they return <STRONG>ERR</STRONG> on
failure, but specifies no error conditions.
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mented feature, the ability to do the equivalent of
- <STRONG>clearok(...,</STRONG> <STRONG>1)</STRONG> by saying <STRONG>touchwin(stdscr)</STRONG> or
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- <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">curs_outopts(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>
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+ 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 documented in other implemen-
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+ not derived from SVr4 source.
+ Not obvious from the description, most implementations
+ clear the screen after <STRONG>wclear</STRONG> even for a subwindow or de-
+ rived window. If you do not want to clear the screen dur-
+ ing the next <STRONG>wrefresh</STRONG>, use <STRONG>werase</STRONG> instead.
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+<H2><a name="h2-SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></H2><PRE>
+ <STRONG><A HREF="ncurses.3x.html">curses(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_outopts.3x.html">curs_outopts(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="curs_refresh.3x.html">curs_refresh(3x)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG>curs_vari-</STRONG>
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+ <STRONG><A HREF="curs_clear.3x.html">curs_clear(3x)</A></STRONG>
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