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<p>clear - clear the screen</p>

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<p>clear</p>

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<p>Look in the termcap database,
find the character to clear the screen,
and emit it.</p>

<p>This is a direct lift from Section 15.7,
<b>Ringing the Terminal Bell</b>,
from <i>Perl Cookbook</i>,
with <code lang='und' xml:lang='und'>cl</code> substituted for <code lang='und' xml:lang='und'>vb</code>.</p>
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<p>Jeffrey S.
Haemer</p>

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<p><b>clear</b> should probably take an argument,
like <b>yes</b>,
that will let users send arbitrary termcap sequences,
with <code lang='und' xml:lang='und'>cl</code> as the default.</p>

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<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'>  Term::Cap(3)</pre>

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