On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:52:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> the system "clear" command merely echo's 2 escape sequences to screen, which
> are very easy to do by hand.  This is idential to what clear does:
> 
> print "\e[H\e[2J";

Or let clear tell you what it does:

perl -e 'my $clear = `clear`; print $clear'

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