From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 21 13:23:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09226 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09217 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA02695 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:23:00 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.184] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vFQsB-0003wcC; Mon, 21 Oct 96 13:22 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Nate Williams Cc: Bill Fenner , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xterm termcap definition References: <199610202126.PAA13401@rocky.mt.sri.com> <96Oct21.123424pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> <199610211940.NAA16880@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:40:27 -0600." <199610211940.NAA16880@rocky.mt.sri.com> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:22:55 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > Interesting again. I just checked, and they do have the entries, > although 'more' on a Sun doesn't seem to use them. Which is why I generally use 'more' on a Sun system (and seem to vaguely remember hacking an option into 'less' at one point to disable the ti/te string usages)...or at least I've gotten in the habit of using 'more' when I want to avoid that screen save/restore behavior (which is most of the time) and less otherwise. I seem to vaguely remember starting a discussion on this subject on one of the FreeBSD lists a while back. I think it was in the context of "why the heck is it doing this with 'less' and I can't see the output because less exited immediately". Turns out that my basic problem was that I was using a 'xterm' termcap entry garnered from some other OS. I probably made some silly statement about my trying to add an option somewhere to disable the whole business, but I just fixed my "problem" by adjusting my termcap entries, instead. Basically...it's a personal preference and it ought to be possible for users to get either behavior without an undue amount of effort. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org