On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Lance Simmons wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried xterm, rxvt and gnome-terminal,
> and am able to reproduce the same problem when paging through the same
> emails. Often, when a line from the previous screenful was longer than
> the line from the current screen, the characters at the end of the line
> remain. It's like the terminal isn't refreshing for each screenful. I
> was hoping one of the terminals I have wouldn't have this problem, but
> no such luck.
what $TERM (and corresponding output from infocmp) do you have?
> I've used script, but have to admit I don't have a clue what to make of
> the output.
The output is all characters that were sent to the screen. If it is
cat'd to the screen (I use a program that does it slowly - works fine
for xterm, but not for emulators such as rxvt which skip steps). Also,
using a utility that converts the escapes to readable form makes it
easy to analyze.
> Has anyone had this problem and solved it satisfactorily?
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:17:21PM -0800, Akkana wrote:
> >
> > Has the original poster tried several different terminal programs?
>
> Lance Simmons
>
--
T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
