Module Name:    src
Committed By:   dholland
Date:           Fri Jan 11 06:14:39 UTC 2019

Modified Files:
        src/lib/libcurses: curses_clear.3

Log Message:
At some point we lost the text that explains the difference between
clear() and erase(). Or possibly we never had any. Put some back.
Bump date.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3

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Index: src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3
diff -u src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3:1.3 src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3:1.4
--- src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3:1.3	Wed Apr 16 13:35:00 2003
+++ src/lib/libcurses/curses_clear.3	Fri Jan 11 06:14:39 2019
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: curses_clear.3,v 1.3 2003/04/16 13:35:00 wiz Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: curses_clear.3,v 1.4 2019/01/11 06:14:39 dholland Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2002
 .\"	Brett Lymn (bl...@netbsd.org, brett_l...@yahoo.com.au)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"
-.Dd August 12, 2002
+.Dd January 11, 2019
 .Dt CURSES_CLEAR 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ and
 .Fn erase
 functions erase all characters on
 .Dv stdscr .
+These differ in that
+.Fn clear
+uses
+.Fn clearok
+to force a complete redraw on the next refresh, and
+.Fn erase
+does not.
 .Fn wclear
 and
 .Fn werase

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