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diff --git a/man/clear.1 b/man/clear.1
index 3d2ffd98..a79bdf15 100644
--- a/man/clear.1
+++ b/man/clear.1
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" 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            *
@@ -26,14 +27,14 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.17 2017/08/19 14:12:50 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: clear.1,v 1.23 2020/02/02 23:34:34 tom Exp $
 .TH @CLEAR@ 1 ""
 .\" these would be fallbacks for DS/DE,
 .\" but groff changed the meaning of the macros.
 .de NS
-.ie \n(.sp
+.ie n  .sp
 .el    .sp .5
-.ie \n(.in +4
+.ie n  .in +4
 .el    .in +2
 .nf
 .ft C			\" Courier
@@ -41,14 +42,16 @@
 .de NE
 .fi
 .ft R
-.in -4
+.ie n  .in -4
+.el    .in -2
 ..
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
 .ie \n(.g .ds '' \(rq
 .el       .ds '' ''
 .de bP
-.IP \(bu 4
+.ie n  .IP \(bu 4
+.el    .IP \(bu 2
 ..
 .ds n 5
 .SH NAME
@@ -58,7 +61,8 @@
 .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
@@ -76,6 +80,8 @@ indicates the \fItype\fR of terminal.
 Normally this option is
 unnecessary, because the default is taken from the environment
 variable \fBTERM\fR.
+If \fB\-T\fR is specified, then the shell
+variables \fBLINES\fR and \fBCOLUMNS\fR will also be ignored.
 .TP
 .B \-V
 reports the version of ncurses which was used in this program, and exits.
@@ -134,7 +140,8 @@ The Linux change, part of the 3.0 release, did not mention xterm,
 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