screen bugs/features

[Systems Staff]

In article <4533 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: In article <4370 at drivax.DRI> davison at drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
: : programmers of many popular packages (including vi & rn) assume that
: : the variable "cl" homes the cursor.
: 
: "Assume" nothin'!  Every system I've used documents "cl" as
: 
: 	Clear screen and home cursor
: 

I just looked in the 4.2BSD termcap(5) manual entry and it just says
"Clear screen" for cl. Then I looked in the 4.3 Manual entry and it
says "Clear screen and home cursor" so this matter has come up before
and been dealt with.

Please stop beating this dead horse.

 Thos Sumner       (thos at cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos at ucsfcca
 (The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

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