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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:34:21 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199610202126.PAA13401@rocky.mt.sri.com>you write:
>... SunOS,...  None of them xterm entries
>used the alternate screen behavior by default.

Interesting.  SunOS 4.1.3's /usr/src/usr.etc/termcap/termcap.src has the alternate screen behavior; are you sure you weren't using a modified termcap?

#       Termcap source file @(#)termcap.src 1.1 92/07/30 SMI; from UCB 5.28 6/7/
86

I really like the alternate screen behavior, and wondered why I sometimes didn't get it.  I guess I never got it on FreeBSD.

  Bill