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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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