From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!essick Newsgroups: net.notes Title: Re: notes- (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.274 Posted: Sun Jul 25 19:26:11 1982 Received: Wed Jul 28 06:14:51 1982 #R:sri-unix:-225500:uiucdcs:23300004:004:576 uiucdcs!essick Jul 25 18:49:00 1982 The code inside of the notes proram does not do any blanking in this case. Maybe the paging program that is called to print the list of available notesfiles (defaults to /usr/ucb/more) has been changed on your machine? The code that prints the messages looks like: printf("Usage: %s [-isxn] [blah blah]", argv[0]); dounix(PAGER, "/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/avail.notes"); There is no screen clearing in the code. Since notes looks at the "PAGER" environment variable, if a user has defined a pager which clears the screen to start, this is what happened. Ray Essick