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In-Reply-To: <4B23F090.10207@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Sat, 12
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Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>,
	svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>,
	Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r200369 - in head: etc share/termcap
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> To be clear, I am NOT asking for a backout ... IIRC in the thread that
> discussed this issue there were quite a few people who thought that
> FreeBSD not clearing the screen was a POLA violation since that's what
> linux does, and it's what most people are used to.

It's not "what Linux does", it's what xterm does.  Xterm did not
originate with Linux; in fact, it predates Linux by about ten years.
FreeBSD's xterm entry was deliberately crippled to lie about xterm's
capabilities.

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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no