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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Summary: worser and worser
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.012158.13288@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 22 Oct 90 01:21:58 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.123109.7287@cs.dal.ca> <7370237@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <7370237@hpfcso.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>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.

This is how HP expects us to use their systems?  Unless I am missing
something, Bob will let me open one specific window size at a time.
What I want to do (and what most systems support) is that I open a
window WITHOUT carefully counting the lines and columns, invoke vi or
more, and and it finds out what the window size is and uses that.

Why do I have to laboriously go through steps 1 to 5?  Isn't that the
sort of job a computer can do?

-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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