As soon as some textmode applications in xterm stop, their output gets
wiped, and the xterm screen is restored to what it looked like before I
launched the app. Somebody thought they were being "helpful"; then
again, so did the designers of "Clippy". I don't know how many updates
ago the behaviour changed, but here's what happens...
Let's say I'm having a problem with packet loss to/from a certain
internet server. I would run "mtr" which gives an ongoing enhanced
traceroute display. When it gets to the router that's dropping packets
I would hit "Q" and mtr quits.
Before the update
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I would copy/paste the mtr output into an email, and send it off to
whomever, with the output showing the packet-loss stats.
After the update
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As soon as mtr quits, its output gets wiped, and the xterm screen is
restored to the state it was in before mtr was launched... helpful NOT!
I've discovered that I can suspend it with {CTRL-S}, but I shouldn't
have to resort to that. Using Google, I found references to
"man termcap", which stated that this behaviour was controlled by
entries in /etc/termcap. Despite the fact that I have the termcap man
page on my system, I do *NOT* have /etc/termcap. Does anyone have a
sample /etc/termcap (or will ~/.termcap work?) to stop the screen
restore after a text application quits?
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
