display vs video sync vs ^L

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:59:37AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> At Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:49:08AM -0500 or thereabouts, 
> suspect Kenneth Brody was observed uttering:
> > When I first came across it, or something similarly-named, many years
> > ago, it did not auto-draw the screens.  When running filePro within
> > it, a screen switch necessitated a Ctrl-L to refresh the screen.  Now,
> > if the terminal itself supported multiple screens, and the termcap
> > was written correctly, it would use the terminal's screen memory to
> > handle this.  (I forget which termcap entries define this.)
> > 
> > It may be that today's versions do handle this (or at least attempt to
> > handle it as best they can), but this has not always been the case.
> 
> I don't know what you used, but it doesn't sound like screen.  That would
> no more happen with fP than it would vi, elm, pico, emacs, or any of the
> other myriad programs I was running under it back in the day.  And I know
> that those all worked just fine.

I'm fairly certain he's talking about SCO's mscreen, a pale imitation.

Cheers,
-- jra
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