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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: screen bugs/features
Message-ID: <4533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 8 Mar 89 21:47:15 GMT
References: <4318@drivax.DRI> <2800015@kailand> <4370@drivax.DRI>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <4370@drivax.DRI> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
: An interesting thing about documentation -- it is often misleading.  The
: 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

But it would be a reasonable thing to assume anyway, because many terminals
can't clear the screen without homing.  You can go ahead and add your extra
Goto(), but at low baud rate it can be quite noticable.  I prefer to think
that "cl" entries that don't home are busted.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov