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1 CLEAR
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Clears a screen and in later implementations perhaps other things like
counters.
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Format
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CLEAR option
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2 SCREEN
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Clears the screen of the character cell display or terminal emulator window
owned by the process or another one specified by its device name.
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Format
.sk;.lm+2;.rm-2
CLEAR SCREEN
.lm-2;.rm+2
3 /DEVICE
.rm-2
.lm+2;.rm-2
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/DEVICE=device-name
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 Controls the device name of the screen which will be cleared.
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3 Bugs
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The CLEAR SCREEN command without a qualifier works fine, but it does not return
an error status if it fails.
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If one uses the device of another process, then the CLEAR SCREEN command
waits until it gets an input from the other process input device.
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3 Examples
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1.$ CLEAR SCREEN
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The CLEAR SCREEN command in this example clears the screen of the current
process.
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2.$ SHOW USERS/FULL/NODE/INTERACTIVE
        OpenVMS User Processes at 26-OCT-1996 19:42:32.40
      Total number of users = 1,  number of processes = 2

   Username      Node   Process Name       PID     Terminal
   ELCH         VISKPA  This is me==:-)  21E003A8  FTA43:
   ELCH         VISKPA  qay'be' Qapla'   21E00496  FTA45:
  $ CLEAR SCREEN/DEVICE=FTA45:
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The CLEAR SCREEN command in this example clears the screen with the device
name FTA45:.