Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:20:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Subject: Re: more and clearing the screen Message-ID: <199611190020.BAA03225@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611181903.LAA03079@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 18, 96 11:03:49 am"
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As Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Gee , if I use "more" to see a file right after it encounters the eof it > clears up the screen. Anyone else seen this behavior with xterm? > "more" works okay with syscons. Has been discussed before. It's the alternate screen display that is enabled by the ti/te capabilities in termcap. Has been introduced in rev 1.62 of termcap.src, and killed again in rev 1.65. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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