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From: ssd@rtmvax.UUCP (Steve Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Why doesn't xterm -e rlogin use window size?
Message-ID: <3116@rtmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 90 01:53:26 GMT
References: <9008110838.AA14199@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Reply-To: ssd@rtmvax.UUCP (Steve Dick)
Organization: RTmVax Public Unix System, Orlando FL
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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?

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

I have a similar problem.  It seems that when rlogin initially creates the
connnection, it does not copy the size.  If I resize the window after
starting it, rlogin corrects the size.

Is there some easy way to fix this other than resizing the window?

I would like to know how to either
 a) get rlogin to copy the size initially
or
 b) get X to tell rlogin to re-copy the size without actually changing the
    size of the window.

Also, I've noticed that the Sun version of vi gets very unhappy if I
resize its window bigger.  (It usually works if I make it smaller.)
I do not have this problem with the vi distributed with Encore's Gould
machine.

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