That looks neat!  One criticism and one question:
/etc/profile and trap are specific to the bourne shell and do not work with
csh on my NetBSD system.
What is signal 0?

Ben
> That's easy to solve.  In /etc/profile, put the line
> 
> trap 'tput clear' 0
> 
> and your problem is solved.

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