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From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: modem connect to host and full page emacsclose
Message-ID: <1990Nov4.170337.308@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 90 23:03:37 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.125530.23683@wam.umd.edu>, charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) writes:
>>A combination of Stuart (or Terminal) and Kermit will work.  The only hitch is
>>that the screen size is not automaticly sent over the kermit connection.  You
>>will need to tell the system running EMACS how big your screen is.  Stuart
>>makes this easy by giving you the size of the window in the title bar.
>>
>>The unix stty command is used to tell the system the size of the screen.
>>
>>	stty rows n   (where n is the number of lines in the terminals display)
>>
>>"stty size" will report what size the system thinks the screen is.  Variations
>>on BSD UNIX, ATT UNIX, and other operating systems like VMS, use different
>>commands to set the size of the screen.
> 
> 
> Or simply resize the (local) window AFTER you login to the remote-
> the number of lines will then adjust automatically.

This would work if you were using a rlogin connection or a connection over the
latest version of telnet and telnetd (not normally installed on a NeXT.)  But
the telnet and telnetd distributed with the next and Kermit have no way to
telling the remote system the size of the screen, or that the size has changed.

-- 
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