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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how to set number of lines
Message-ID: <1040@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 89 08:25:57 GMT
References: <163@jma.UUCP> <216000017@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <216000017@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>In article <163@jma.UUCP> max@jma.UUCP(Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics) writes:
>>xs	set noglob; eval `resize`
>What do you do for rlogins to systems without any X-windows support on them?

The "eval `resize`" works in any environment, not just for X.  For logins 
on a GraphOn-250 with 25 screen lines I have added "export LINES=25" in my
profile (I use ksh).  This command can, of course, be executed at any time for
any value of LINES.  The same goes for COLUMNS.

The above works for HP-UX and probably for Sys V.  I am not sure whether
BSD supports LINES and COLUMNS.