Using screen, commands like less and man don't clear the screen afterwards

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Published on 2010-05-05T07:00:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 7:08 UTC
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In contrast to this question I want the clearing of the screen re-enabled for less. It works fine in my xterm terminal under Cygwin/mintty or Gnome Terminal (both xterms).

However, when inside a screen session, the clearing of the screen is somehow disabled. I tried several things, like

screen -T xterm

or putting the autonuke statement in my ~/.screenrc. Also, inside the screen session

export TERM=xterm
tset

has no effect. So, now I'm out of ideas. Any help appreciated.

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