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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: u386mon in 43 line mode
Message-ID: <229@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 13 Oct 90 09:00:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct12.010848.8526@unixland.uucp> <15945@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <15945@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <1990Oct12.010848.8526@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>>I have a program called ega43 that makes the display turn into 43 line
>>mode -- but when I run u386mon, it only uses "25 line mode".
>Do you also set LINES=43 after running ega43?  Or select a terminal type
>that says lines#43 in the definition?  Otherwise how is u386mon gonna
>know what mode you're in.

Either will do with terminfo (but not termcap) curses.
The LINES and COLS environment variables will override
any lines#xx or cols#xx in the terminfo entry.

Terminfo first loads the entry from /usr/lib/terminfo/?/????
and then checks the environment for LINES and COLS.
 
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Warren Tucker, March Hare   gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
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