In previous releases of AIX (<5.3) the "more" command didn't redraw the screen upon exit. This helped when searching in a text document or man page because one could look for the relevant part of it, exit and use the left-over at the screen as reference for typing the next command.
Alas, this behaviour has changed: upon exiting "more" the screen is restored to what it was before invoking "more", thereby erasing exactly the information one was looking for. I was searching for a remedy and found out the following:
"more" is configured by an environment variable "MORE", which can be set - depending on which scope it should have - in "/etc/environment", one users ".kshrc" script or at the command line. Add/execute the following line:
MORE="-W notite" ; export MORE
(In "/etc/environment" you don't need the "export")
Now, if one knows how to accomplish the same for the exit of "vi" (or "view") I'd be glad to hear the solution.
I hope this helps.
bakunin