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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 'more' couldn't scroll in xterm
Keywords: xterm, SunOS4.0.3
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.061330.1348@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 06:13:30 GMT
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In article <43000@ut-emx.uucp>, unix307@emx.utexas.edu (Shane Chang) writes:
> Just spend several days to put X11R4 on the Sun SparcStation1 (SunOS
> 4.0.3) and played with it.  Everything seems o.k. except in xterm
> 'more' and 'history' (csh) always clear the screen first and then
> display.  The previous screen and previous prompt are not scrolled
> up and off the top but simply wiped out.  If the new screen has
> wraparound lines then they are messed up with the leftover from
> previous screen. However 'cat' does work prefectly.
> 
> When I rlogin to other systems and running their xterms, none of them
> has any problem (either in the same rlogin xterm winodw or a created
> new one).

Your SPARC most likely has messed up ti and te (or the terminfo equivlents)
termcap entrys.  Try checking to see if it is the same as the "other systems"'s.
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