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From: bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 05:53:50 GMT
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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.

What if I want to use more than one size window on my workstation, *at
the same time*?  Now let's see, I create my own termcap entry for each
type of session I want to use?  I wonder how many that I will need to
create?  Multiplied by however many people use the machine?  So that's
resize the window, exit the app, setenv TERM, restart the app...  Kinda
makes that resize widget on the window frame useless, doesn't it?  You
better get another disk drive to hold that /etc/termcap.

>Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
>Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM       3404 East Harmony Road
>                UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcrjn!rjn     Ft Collins CO 80525-9599


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