Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!evgabb
From: evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <184@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 14:02:38 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.012158.13288@cs.dal.ca>
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Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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From article <1990Oct22.012158.13288@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert):
> 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.

The resize program supplied with HP-UX is intended to allow you to do that. It
queries via curses the current width and height of the window and outputs the
following lines (appropriate for use in eval):

	LINES=xx;
	COLUMNS=yy;
	export LINES COLUMNS;

where xx and yy equal the number of lines and colummns respectively in the 
pseudo terminal. Thus, after resizing your window you could execute the 
following (assuming /usr/bin/X11 is in your path):

	eval `resize`

I set up the following Korn Shell alias for vi so I don't have to worry about 
doing this every time I resize my window. You could do the same for more if it 
queries LINES and COLUMNS. You could also do this via a shell function in the 
Bourne Shell or via and alias in the C Shell:

vr=eval $( /usr/bin/X11/resize );vi

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Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb)  
Technical Development Engineer   
Structural Dynamics Research Corp