"Altscreen" refers to an xterm terminal capability. Not all terminal types support this, not to mention not all people want this. Details per Thomas Dickey (re: xterm): http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-The-Alternate-Screen-Buffer
In my PuTTY profiles, I intentionally disable the capability. As stated, others dislike it too: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html Hope this answers this question. -- | Jeremy Chadwick [email protected] | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 12:19:08AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > What is altscreen? > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Cág <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've already written to the Alpine list, but, assuming these are > > specifically BusyBox utilities, here is it. > > > > On my Alpine after booting login(1) starts on the same screen, > > meaning I can see all boot messages. less(1) and more(1) leave the > > screen filled with output. Is there a way to recompile them all > > somehow to have altscreens? Or maybe there are patches? > > > > Thank ye, > > Cág > > _______________________________________________ > > busybox mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
