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From: kucharsk@number6.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Resizing xterms running vi
Keywords: Openlook, X11/R3, xterm
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.184436.23500@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 18:44:36 GMT
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In article <3391@ryn.esg.dec.com> sridhar@consl5.esg.dec.com (Pete Sridharan) writes:
 >  I am running Openlook 2.0 of AT&T  on 386 running SVR 3.2.2:
 >
 > Is there a way of setting resources so that xterms that are running screen 
 > oriented programs like vi and (vannila) emacs can be resized.  It 
 > doesn't seem to allow window resizing for those programs.

AT&T's xterm implementation understands a "magic cookie" sequence which tells
the xterm to not allow resizing; this is what is happening here.  This is to
avoid the nasty consequences of the fact that SVR3 doesn't have a SIGWINCH
signal to inform other processes of window size changes, and that SVR3 vi(1)
obviously wouldn't understand it even if it did.  Yes, things change in SVR4...
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