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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: how to "fix" more(1) vs termcap/terminfo?
To: scott@statsci.com
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 01:12:15 +0000 ()
Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199511272325.PAA11307@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Nov 27, 95 03:25:58 pm
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Scott Blachowicz stands accused of saying:
>>> This has been annoying me for a while, so...if I page something with
>>> 'more' (as found in my 2.1.0-950928-SNAP system and 2.0.5-RELEASE
>>> too, I think) with my $TERM set to "xterm", it just runs past the
>>> end of the file without waiting for a prompt or anything. Is there
>>> any way to get it to ALWAYS prompt at EOF (even for files smaller
>>> than one screen in length)?
>> Your screen size is set incorrectly. Run the 'resize' command to fix it,
>> and use less if you want to pause at EOF.
>
> I already do all that. Let's try doing it "manually" to make sure it is
> getting done...
>
> scott@block:~> eval `/usr/X11R6/bin/resize`
> scott@block:~> wc -l foo.c
> 3 foo.c
> scott@block:~> more foo.c
> [NOTE: I see the screen flash with no pausing and without being able to
> see the contents of foo.c]
I can't reproduce that behaviour here.
> scott@block:~> echo $MORE
> MORE: Undefined variable.
alias more ?
>>> Or, if that's not possible, how do I tweak my termcap/terminfo entries
>>> to disable the screen contents save/restore?>
>> Remove the ti/te entries from the xterm termcap.
>
> Seems to me that it's a bug in 'more' for it to continue past EOF without
> a pause in the presence of ti/te entries that cause the screen to be
> cleared. I don't know how it would be able to tell that the ti/te entries
> clear the screen. Maybe 'more' should just have an option that causes it
> to always pause at EOF (like 'less'). This is cute...I'd gotten into the
> habit [on other platforms] of using 'more' when I DIDN'T want the ti/te
> stuff and 'less' when I DID want the ti/te - on FreeBSD they both use
> ti/te.
More, under 2.0.5-RELEASE, 2.1-STABLE or 2.2-CURRENT does not appear
to use the ti/te capability in an xterm. I have no idea what your
problem is, but it's not more, xterm or FreeBSD.
Sorry I can't be more (sic) help...
> Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
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