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From: edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Unpleasant behavior of xterm
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 14:20:56 EST
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In article <8711191640.AA19997@dagda.think.com> rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) writes:
>[Using X10R4 with some recent version of xterm]
>
>Curses-using programs (top, less) seem to flip back to the alternate
>screen when they exit, a behavior not seen with older versions of
>xterm or on VT100's.  I can't find any way of turning this off listed
>in the man page, nor in the menus.  I know that some people like this,
>but it's not a universal win...
>
>cca >>>>>>>>>>  |
>harvard >>>>>>  |
>bloom-beacon >  |think!rlk	Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com>
>rutgers >>>>>>  |
>ihnp4 >>>>>>>>  .

As the writer of xterm version 6.6, I'm sorry it isn't documented that well.
Anyways, just change the termcap entry by removing the ti= and te= entries.
You can even have separate versions of the termcap, with and without.

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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