[Big Mac]

I apologize for asking this question, since I know I already read it somewhere on the forums. I'm wondering how to prevent Terminal from clearing the output of a program just quit. For example, display top and then press q. The buffer is cleared and the only thing displayed is a blank prompt. This wasn't the way Jaguar's terminal acted, so I'd like to restore the functionality.

[Paul McCann]

One way is to change your TERM environment variable from "xterm-color" to "vt100".
The vt100 setting isn't too bad, so not much is lost. So if you're using bash or zsh just

export TERM=vt100

in one of your initialization files, and if you're using tcsh just use

setenv TERM vt100

in your .login file.

Cheers,
Paul

[utidjian]

Originally posted by Big Mac:
... For example, display top and then press q. The buffer is cleared and the only thing displayed is a blank prompt. ...

You could also run the command:

top -l 1

And get a single screenful of top dumped to the terminal or, alternatively, to a file.

top -L n

Where n is the number of process lines you want to display is also handy.

[Moonray]

Or use your mouse, highlight and copy the part you're interested in and paste it after you quit top.

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[oldfogey]

Paul has the right idea if you want the same behaviour as Jaguar:

One way is to change your TERM environment variable from "xterm-color" to "vt100".

But you can just go to the Terminal->Preferences pane and select 'vt100' from the popup list to do exactly the same thing.

It isn't just 'top' that is affected, so is 'man' and anything that uses 'less'.

If you want to keep the 'xterm-color' there are ways of preventing it clearing the window for these applications. For bash, you can put:

Code:
export LESS='-XRse'

in .login, or for tcsh:

Code:
setenv LESS '-XRse'

But I'm not sure if this helps with 'top'.