TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)

[wollman at freebsd.org]

In article <86vec4dxcy.fsf at ds4.des.no>, DES writes:

>This is the *correct* behaviour.  The termcap entry is supposed to
>reflect the capabilities of the terminal, not your personal preferences.

There's a difference between "personal preferences" and this
particular behavior that has nothing to do with "reflecting the
capabilities of the terminal".  Switching display pages every time
full-screen program runs, when the user has not requested it, is
plainly obnoxious, and has *nothing* to do with initializing the
terminal.

>If you don't like it, you can override it using the TERMCAP environment
>variable.

Likewise.

-GAWollman