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From: stripes@wam.UMD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to set number of lines
Message-ID: <8906272347.AA24302@cscwam.UMD.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 89 23:47:07 GMT
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In article <163@jma.UUCP> max@jma.UUCP (Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics) writes:
>I use X on many platforms, where the number of lines seems to default
>to 65 regardless of the size of the window I use.  tput shows this number
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>Max Heffler                     uucp: ..!uunet!jma!max
>Landmark Graphics Corp.         phone: (713) 579-4751
>333 Cypress Run, Suite 100
>Houston, Texas  77094
I use the csh alias:
xs	set noglob; eval `resize`

I'm assumeing that it's the same resize that comes with xterm.
Executeing this will query the xterm for it's current size and stuff
it back into the TERMCAP variable, it works here under Ultrix.
-- 
           stripes@wam.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
    Still looking for a termcap entry for a PC running APL*PLUS...