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From: thant@horus.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman)
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Subject: Re: overlay and window manager
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.162658.24150@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 16:26:58 GMT
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In article <9103202219.AA18227@karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:

>Is there any system level way to clear the overlay planes after 
>a program scribbles on them ? 

'gclear' should do the trick.

thant