It seems like in situations where the terminal is used by many people and
thus extra "privacy" is desirable, it will usually be a single type of
terminal that you can specify, even if coming over a modem.

> Only on locally connected terminals where they're hardwired and
> their type is known, i.e., the console or something connected to ttya/
> tty01/whatever...
> 
> For me, the clearing of a screen at logout time is a nicety, not
> a necessity.  That said, I did put the clear sequences into /etc/gettytab
> for the Pc3 and suncons entries (Sun Consoles use ^L, BTW, but \e[2J would
> work there too).

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Ben Collver -- collver@softhome.net
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