Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: screen bugs/features Summary: Clarification was made in 4.3 manual Message-ID: <1709@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 9 Mar 89 00:51:00 GMT References: <4318@drivax.DRI> <2800015@kailand> <4370@drivax.DRI> <4533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 23 In article <4533@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes: : In article <4370@drivax.DRI> davison@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@cca.ucsf.edu) BITNET: thos@ucsfcca (The I.G.) (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include