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From: jack@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Jack Repenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <4310144@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 21:56:17 GMT
References: <7370237@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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In comp.sys.hp, rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:

> 1. 'untic hp > silvert'

I can't believe this!  Did I actually *catch* Bob Niland?  It *can't*
be - he knows *all* the right answers!  Maybe I'm missing some context
here or something (which is possible, since I don't have the base
note)....

Anyway, assuming I understand what's going on here, the procedure Bob
specifies is perfectly correct (of course!), but a great deal more
trouble than necessary, and a great deal less flexible than desirable.
As he points out, sort of, there are environment variables defined to
let vi or more (or pretty much any other program) know how big your
window is at start up.  If they're set, they override the entry in the
termcap database, which means you don't need to play around with untic.

So, how do you get them set?  Well, the termulators (hpterm and xterm)
set them when they start up, to whatever size the window starts at.

But, if you change the window size after start up, they can't help you
- environment variables are inherited on start-up, and your login
shell is already running, and not listening to any new inputs of this
sort.  For this kind of situation, there's a command, resize(1)
(/usr/bin/X11/resize), that prints out the commands needed by your
login shell (taken from $SHELL) to set them.  So the following works
for most users ($SHELL==/bin/sh, /bin/csh, or /bin/ksh):

		      eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`

Alias it to something easy to type, like 'rs', and do it whenever you
resize a window, and your vi's and more's and everything else will be
fine.

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