startup

[Devon]

In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-30 on grant.org
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr/local i386--freebsd'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please make sure the display is stable before showing the initial mode line.

Under FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE and no doubt every other platform,
emacs-21 starts up differently from all previous versions
in that it fails to clear the screen.  This leads to the
very disturbing case of an emacs mode line under random
output not from emacs.  This should NEVER HAPPEN, not
even momentarily, now it is happening every time.