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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Why doesn't xterm -e rlogin use window size?
Message-ID: <9008110838.AA14199@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 11 Aug 90 08:38:42 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> If I issue the command:
> 	rcmd ssg0 xterm -display ssg2:0
> the programs which use the screen size (more, vi, rn) understand the
> size of the window.  On the other hand, if I issue:
> 	xterm -e rlogin ssg0
> all program remain convinced that the window is the size defined by
> the termcap entry, regardless of the window's actual size.

> Why?

Either ssg2 has a broken rlogin or ssg0 has a broken rlogind.[%]  The
rlogin protocol has provisions for passing the terminal size through
the connection; they should be doing so.

The first command works because, of course, rlogin is not involved;
xterm is running directly on ssg0.

[%] I count as broken rlogins or rloginds that are so old they don't
    know about the window size protocol.

					der Mouse

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