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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <7370237@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 90 16:24:18 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.123109.7287@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: > Working with VUE I discovered that programs like vi and more assume a
    > 24x80 window and won't adjust to work with any other size (for
    > example, with a longer window they use only the top 24 lines).

> Since vi and more get the screen size from termcap or terminfo when they
> load, what is nonstandard about getting the size of a window as well,
> which is after all a virtual terminal?  I can understand not adjusting to
> a resized window, but when you load a program it seems to me it should use
> the window you are in.

1. 'untic hp > silvert'
2. edit the "lines#24" to whatever you like (I use 35).
3. have your admin perform a 'tic silvert'
4. edit your .profile or .login to set TERM=silvert
5. for vi specifically, you can also use the -w command option
   and the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.

99. If you set COLUMNS higher than 80, don't use that window to post to
    netnews :-)   It causes wrapping and/truncating on the 80 column
    windows used by 91.4% of the readership.

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