From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 13:17:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018EB37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBA243F13 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com (asmtp01-qfe3 [10.13.10.65]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h06LHRbr002883 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bust ([12.38.161.88]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H8B9T200.7RI for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:17:26 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:17:24 -0500 Subject: Re: terminal features Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) From: Chuck Swiger To: "freebsd" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <40485FD5-21BC-11D7-81E0-000A27D85A7E@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:07 PM, Brian Henning wrote: [ ... ] > i currently am using putty to access my bsd box from windows 2000. Using an > editor such as vi, i may edit a file and exit vi. When that happens i > would > like the terminal to return to its original state. instead it leaves some > of > the file left of the screen. what i want is for the terminal to return to > the same state it was in before entering vi. Try a Cntl-L or 'clear'. You might also check and see what $TERM is set to; perhaps if you set this to match what putty is setting the terminal type to (probably VT100 or ANSI), various programs will do better at drawing to the screen. -Chuck Chuck Swiger | chuck@codefab.com | All your packets are belong to us. -------------+-------------------+----------------------------------- "The human race's favorite method for being in control of the facts is to ignore them." -Celia Green To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message