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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: how does xterm tell vi the window size
Keywords: xterm vi
Message-ID: <1233@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 00:23:00 GMT
References: <253@zeek.UUCP> <1227@virtech.UUCP> <286@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
Lines: 33

In article <286@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>, rao@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Arun Rao) writes:
> In article <1227@virtech.UUCP>, cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> > 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.


But how does this solve the problem when you login with one window that
is 40 rows and another that is 32 rows and a monster that is 75 rows?
Do you have different terminal types for every window?  the stty option
lets you use the same terminal definition for each window.









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