Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:19:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To: current@freebsd.org
Subject: TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707281007310.21300@sea.ntplx.net>
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Sometime in the last few months, something changed (broke IMHO) when using TERM=xterm-r5 or TERM=xterm-r6. I've been setting TERM=xterm-r5 when logging in to my BSD boxes remotely from my Solaris boxes, so that man(1) works. But after updating my relatively old (May?) -current box, xterm-r5 and xterm-r6 no longer do the right thing when using man. With TERM set to either one of those, man(1) will clear the screen after it is done, leaving no trace of the man page behind. I've always hated HP/UX and Linux for this behavior, and our default TERM=xterm does not exhibit this behavior. To see this: $ TERM=xterm-r5 $ export TERM $ man man Anyone know how this got broke? -- DE
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