What terminal are you using? Post the output of echo $TERM
Some *nix terminals support t_ti and t_te variables (these control the behavior you describe).
Some others like vt100 or sco do not support it, as far as I know.
You may have success by just changing the terminal to something more "full-featured" like xterm:
However, there's no guarantee that xterm is available on your system.
Last edited by verdepollo; 10-10-2013 at 04:32 PM..
Reason: command typo... No wonder why the command didn't work.
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