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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to set number of lines
Message-ID: <10469@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jun 89 05:11:15 GMT
References: <163@jma.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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.

The X window manager should tell the terminal handler for each window
what the window size is, and software such as "vi" should use that
information instead of what is specified in the termcap or terminfo
description.