On Wed, 5 May 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I'm the happy (? :) owner of an IPX since yesterday evening. I installed
> the 1.4_BETA snapshot on it and noticed a strance thing with the console
> framebuffer:
> when exiting vi (and I've seen this with the install script too), the display
> scrolls back for a few seconds a lot of garbage. There is garbage in the
> non-text portion of the screen as well (this place which is left with the
> grey X root when you hit stop-A while running X and scrolls some lines).
> Typing 'clear' gives me back a clean white screen. And yes, I have
> TERM=sun in my environement.
> 
> Did someone else notice this ? I didn't notice it on my IPC, but it's not
> the same framebuffer (the IPX has a cgsix0, where the IPC has a bwtwo, if I
> remember properly).

Does using TERM=sun-ss5 clear it up?  This is a really old problem with
cgsix framebuffers.  Maybe we should dump the `sun' termcap and switch it
for the `sun-ss5' termcap entry.

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