ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111217

[ncurses.git] / man / clear.1

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 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   *
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2010 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            *
@@ -26,23 +26,22 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.3 2000/07/15 23:59:35 china Exp $
-.TH clear 1 ""
+.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.8 2010/12/04 18:36:44 tom Exp $
+.TH @CLEAR@ 1 ""
 .ds n 5
 .SH NAME
-\fBclear\fR - clear the terminal screen
+\fB@CLEAR@\fR \- clear the terminal screen
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBclear\fR
+\fB@CLEAR@\fR
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-\fBclear\fR clears your screen if this is possible.  It looks in the
+\fB@CLEAR@\fR clears your screen if this is possible.  It looks in the
 environment for the terminal type and then in the \fBterminfo\fR database to
 figure out how to clear the screen.
+.PP
+\fB@CLEAR@\fR ignores any command-line parameters that may be present.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 \fB@TPUT@\fR(1), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n)
-.\"#
-.\"# The following sets edit modes for GNU EMACS
-.\"# Local Variables:
-.\"# mode:nroff
-.\"# fill-column:79
-.\"# End:
+.PP
+This describes \fBncurses\fR
+version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).