Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE

[Jamie Bowden]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> > Very critical indeed...  And with such a huge userbase that it took
> > six months before anybody noticed this problem.  :-)

> No, we noticed it here at work where we use Sun Solaris boxes as our
> development systems.  I didn't know what the problem was until now.  It
> is very very annoying to have man, more, less, etc, screw up your
> display when using them while remotely logged in to our FreeBSD boxes.
> The symptoms are that everything gets highlighted and underlined and it
> stays that way forcing you to close the xterm and open another.  If we
> set TERM to xterm-r6 or xterm-r5, then everything seems to work OK.

I brought this same problem up a while back, as it did the same thing to
my xterm on my Irix boxes as well.  It's not just FreeBSD, current Redhat
releases do the same thing.

Jamie Bowden

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