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From: rao@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Arun Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: how does xterm tell vi the window size
Summary: But ours works fine !?
Keywords: xterm vi
Message-ID: <286@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 18:33:48 GMT
References: <253@zeek.UUCP> <1227@virtech.UUCP>
Organization: Arizona State Univ, Tempe
Lines: 25

In article <1227@virtech.UUCP>, cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> In article <253@zeek.UUCP>, rick@zeek.UUCP (Rick Wilhelm) writes:
> > I logged on to a remote host and tried to vi a file.
> > vi thinks that the window is 24 lines deep.

> For bsd you need to use: 
> 
> 	stty rows xx columns xx
> 
> Since vi is a pre-X program, it has no built in mechanisms for determining
>	....

	vi seems to work fine on our BSD system (an HCX-7 running 4.3BSD)
	when I log in from our System V workstations (a bunch of  Ardent
	Titans). I copied the /etc/termcap file from the Ardent to a
	.termcap file in my home dir. on the Harris - this is probably what
	did it.

	-Arun
	
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