CLS.COM - A "SCREEN" DOCUMENTARY.

Dear Friends:

	I suspect that most of us have wished that the earlier versions of 
CP/M had a clear screen - home cursor command. I know I have. For that matter,
I also always wanted the command in early versions of Microsoft (TM) Basic.
	Remember though, when Gary Kildall wrote CP/M and Bill Gates wrote the
first versions of Altair Basic, (for you young folks - this was in the Dark
Ages - 1975 and 1976), most of the micro-computer community used as their
terminals the terrible, noisy, 'leaks oil like some cars', MONSTER called
a Teletype (TM) Model 33.
	I built an Altair (TM) 8800B, (like the one Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak could not afford) which started this whole thing, from the kit in
early 1977 and had such a terminal.
	If anyone ever knew how to 'home the cursor and clear the screen'
on a Teletype (TM), I never heard of it here in Mississippi and I doubt
somehow that anyone else did either.
	Therefore, please "forgive" Gary Kildall and Bill Gates for not
 including these commands in their early programming 'works of art'.
	I certainly have.
	Still, I have always wanted this command and it is not even present
on my version of CP/M vers. 2.2G (for my Kaypro 4 84).
	Therefore, in an uncharacteristic 'fit' of energy recently, I came
up with the enclosed 'life work epic' which must run at least 15 or 20 bytes 
of 'dreaded' machine language code. If you study it carefully, it is a
bit more elegant than you might, at first, suspect.
	Not surprisingly, I call it CLS.COM.
	I have used this little program with great pleasure for the past few
months and now I would like to share it with you. I know, because of that
'feature' of CP/M, that any program, no matter how small, takes up 2K of
disk space; but I think it is worth the space - even if it's on every disk.
	I find that it is my third most used program, right behind SD.COM
and NSWEEP.COM.
	I like it so much that my 'pride of authorship' and ego want me to
stamp it with my name - or initials, at the very least - especially since
I am sure that it is the only program I have ever written that amounts to
a 'hill of beans'.
	Alas! If I did that, it would defeat the whole purpose of it,
wouldn't it?
	 Sometimes, "life is not always fair" as President Kennedy once
reminded us.
	Oh, well, for what it's worth, here it is and I really do hope you
enjoy it but, please...
	If you ever see my name again, just mumble, "I've seen that name
somewhere before, but I don't remember where!"

	Regards, ERNEST SPENCER of Jackson, Ms., W5PQY.  06/06/85