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--- a/share/termcap/termcap.5
+++ b/share/termcap/termcap.5
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 16, 1994
+.Dd December 13, 2009
.Dt TERMCAP 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1999,6 +1999,22 @@ Unfortunately, due to lack of a definition for string parameters in
only
.Xr terminfo 5
supports these capabilities.
+.Pp
+For the
+.Xr xterm 1
+terminal emulator the traditional behavior in
+FreeBSD when exiting a pager such as
+.Xr less 1
+or
+.Xr more 1 ,
+or an editor such as
+.Xr vi 1
+is NOT to clear the screen after the program exits.
+If you prefer to clear the screen there are a number of
+.Dq xterm-clear
+entries that add this capability in the
+.Nm
+file that you can use directly, or as examples.
.Ss Glitches and Braindamage
Hazeltine terminals, which do not allow `~' characters to be displayed,
should indicate
@@ -2105,6 +2121,7 @@ Hash database file containing terminal descriptions (see
.Xr tset 1 ,
.Xr ul 1 ,
.Xr vi 1 ,
+.Xr xterm 1 ,
.Xr ncurses 3 ,
.Xr printf 3 ,
.Xr termcap 3 ,
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