From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 18 16:51:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29544 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29511 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:51:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA02268; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:16 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA19023; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id BAA03225; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:20:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611190020.BAA03225@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: more and clearing the screen To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:20:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611181903.LAA03079@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Nov 18, 96 11:03:49 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)