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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm -- how can I disable screen restore?
Message-ID: <1047@redford.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 91 14:54:57 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.190153.10762@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9104101311.AA18390@underprize.think.com>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <9104101311.AA18390@underprize.think.com> rlk@think.COM (Robert L Krawitz) writes:
>Why doesn't titeInhibit simply make xterm ignore these control
>sequences?
It does.  I use it to ignore it for more.  It doesn't work for vi
because, as you have pointed out (In text which I deleted) vi reads the
terminfo database directly, and forces a screen save.  

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