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Subject: Re: Xterm wierdness after 'make world'...
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In Email, David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> The second problem is related to the ti and te termcap entries.
> These are switching to an alternate screen buffer while 'more' is
> running, then switching back afterwards.  I've been setting my
> PAGER to 'more -e' which is OK for the last page of longer files, but
> still doesn't fix things for short files.  The X Consortium's standard
> R6 termcap entry for xterm also does this.

Try using something along the lines of

 alias mo="echo 'reset; clear; more \$@; read -p '\''<<<Press ENTER>>>'\''
 nl < /dev/tty' | sh -s"

NOTE, of course, that there's no \n break in the above...


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