Anybody else noticed that now in 10.3, commands like more, man, and pico
will completely clear their text off the screen when they exit? Used to be
you could do something like "man tcsh" and hold down the spacebar until it
got done, then the entire contents of tcsh's man page would be in your
scrollback buffer. Now it's gone. This sucks.

Anybody know if there's an environment variable that makes these commands
behave the old USEFUL way?

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Steve Mills
Mac geek, drummer

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:47:59 +0000, Steve Mills wrote:

> Anybody else noticed that now in 10.3, commands like more, man, and pico
> will completely clear their text off the screen when they exit? Used to be
> you could do something like "man tcsh" and hold down the spacebar until it
> got done, then the entire contents of tcsh's man page would be in your
> scrollback buffer. Now it's gone. This sucks.
>
> Anybody know if there's an environment variable that makes these commands
> behave the old USEFUL way?

In the Terminal preferences change "Declare terminal type ($TERM) as:"
from "xterm-color" to "vt100"

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Roy Sinnamond
roysinnamond at mac dot com
"That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, Bingo!"

sjmills@nospam.mac.com (Steve Mills) wrote in message news:<sjmills-3010031647590001@192.168.1.4>...
> Anybody else noticed that now in 10.3, commands like more, man, and pico
> will completely clear their text off the screen when they exit? Used to be
> you could do something like "man tcsh" and hold down the spacebar until it
> got done, then the entire contents of tcsh's man page would be in your
> scrollback buffer. Now it's gone. This sucks.
>
> Anybody know if there's an environment variable that makes these commands
> behave the old USEFUL way?

May I humbly suggest multiple terminal windows?

Joe
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Long-time Unix Programmer and Mac user