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From: bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew)
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Subject: Re: Something useful for a change
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Date: 2 Nov 90 06:41:04 GMT
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In article <25191@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu
(Brian Bartholomew) writes:

> How about putting the "resize" code in tcsh?

In article <603@dptechno.UUCP> dave@dptechno.UUCP (Dave Lee) writes:

> No, that's a really bad idea, as resize gets the data from xterm
> via an escape sequence, and you'll make a mess.


Well, ok, punt.

How about having xterm itself make the mods to the tcsh's
environmental strings.  Does the environment scoping allow this?  Will
the programs the shell runs see the changed environment?

Xterm source that compiles under this environment should not be
impossible to get.


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