Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 04:33:33 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how to "fix" more(1) vs termcap/terminfo? Message-ID: <199511230433.EAA27958@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511230121.RAA28566@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Nov 22, 95 05:21:47 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. > Or, if that's not possible, how do I tweak my termcap/terminfo > entries to disable the screen contents save/restore? Running past the end of > file without a prompt wouldn't be so bad if it didn't immediately restore the > previous screen contents on exit. I usually hate it when programs do that > (e.g. vi, less and FreeBSD more). Remove the ti/te entries from the xterm termcap. > Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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