Thank you - the system("clear")did the trick. And Aaron Shurts' suggestion about reading perldoc resolved a "reading problem" I've been having. Items like C<exec LIST> and C<wait()> have meant nothing when I've come across them. Now - it dawns on me that they are "c" calls.
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