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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:41:17 -0400
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
Message-ID:  <20070729124116.GA4489@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: <f8hmgs$2c1l$1@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw>

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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:26:52PM +0800, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Because somebody modified it to reflect his personal preference:
> 
> xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
>         :ti@:te@:tc=3Dxterm-xfree86:
> 
> the "ti@:te@:" part disables the save / restore functionality.
> 
> See for instance the log messages for src/share/termcap/termcap.src
> revisions 1.129 and 1.130.

...noting that was almost 5 years ago, the current issue is what changed
in the past 6 months.  The information that I can see at the moment
leans toward the notion that someone's been using the terminfo data
for some time, and is unpleasantly surprised at the result when using
the termcap.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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