From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 18 17:58:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA05230 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:58:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.blaze.net.au (server.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA05210 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.blaze.net.au ([203.17.53.1]) by blaze.net.au with SMTP id <188422-143>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:57:26 +1000 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:57:11 +1100 (EST) From: "David L. Nugent" To: Amancio Hasty cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more and clearing the screen In-Reply-To: <199611181903.LAA03079@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, 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. It isn't more, but your termcap. XFree 3.2 comes with a "new and improved" termcap for its xterm with page switching in its init/deinit termcap entries. There was some discussion about this on the FreeBSD lists a couple of weeks back. FWIW, I don't mind the behaviour because I have "setenv MORE '-e'" in my .login and the equivalent in .profile. This causes more to prompt at the end of output and not exit immediately. If you wanted this behaviour just in xterm, then add it to your .xinitrc or .xsession. If you don't like the page switching at all, then edit your termcap and remove the offending sequences. Regards, David