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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 01:54:28 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        scott@statsci.com
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: how to "fix" more(1) vs termcap/terminfo?
Message-ID:  <199511280154.BAA06536@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511280141.RAA12840@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Nov 27, 95 05:41:35 pm

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Scott Blachowicz stands accused of saying:
> Aha!  Let's compare that termcap entry to the FreeBSD standard
> one...FreeBSD sez:

Ah.  I knew it was a site problem 8)

> > More, under 2.0.5-RELEASE, 2.1-STABLE or 2.2-CURRENT does not appear
> > to use the ti/te capability in an xterm.
> 
> Do you say that because you've looked at the source code (I don't have
> mine handy right now)?  Or just that you haven't observed the effects?  In
> other words, could the lack of ti/te caps in the distributed /etc/termcap
> explain everything?

No, I made the (incredibly bogus) assumption that the standard xterm
termcap had ti/te in it, and couldn't reproduce your problem.  Sorry.

> Which brings me back to my original observation that there ought to be an
> option to do one of the following:
> 
> 1) Completely disable ti/te cap usage from more.
> 2) Unconditionally force a prompt at EOF.
> 
> I suppose I should just do a 'send-pr', huh?

Or you could add the option to more, and submit the changes 8)

> Scott Blachowicz    Ph: 206/283-8802x240    StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.

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