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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <1080173@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 18:34:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct20.123109.7287@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> I'm in the market for a Unix workstation and have been looking at the HP
> 400 series machines.  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).  I commented that this seemed like a pretty serious shortcoming.

hpterm should set the LINES and COLUMNS variable to the initial size of 
the hpterm window, so if you bring up the window at 80x35, everything
will be hunky-dory. If you later change the size of the window, executing

	eval `resize`

will reset LINES and COLUMNS to the new dimensions.

> The salesman just contacted me and said that he spoke to HP's software
> engineers, and they claim that by doing this HP is maintaining some kind
> of standard.  Software that adjusts to the actual window size is in
> their opinion "non-standard".

Hmmmmm. No comment.

			-- Chan