Bug#2243: xterm vanishes when it's big (some escape sequence?)
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Raul Miller wrote:
> With PAGER=less in the environment, open an xterm, set the font to
> unreadable, open to a fairly large window (e.g. >200 lines), then type
> man mkdir
>
> The xterm will vanish silently -- no core file, not even an error
> message in .xsession-errors
Right. I can reproduce this, but so far I don't know about a fix. I don't
have time to trawl through the xterm source (although I have a vague idea
where the problem may be - in the code that switches to the alternate
buffer) so I'd better forward it to the XFree86 people.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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