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From: mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer)
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Subject: Re: why doesnt vi resize itself in xterm and other weirdness
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Date: 12 Jan 91 20:38:10 GMT
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In article <37871@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>Hi -
>	I am playing around with a big monitor (corner stone) on the
>ISC2.2 unix. The resolution is 1600x1024 or something. I have a vi
>running in an xterm, but when I resize the xterm and restart vi, 
>it will not chanage its window size according to the size of xterm. My

Unfortunately I'm not a termcap hacker so I can'te tell you how to write
a fixed termcap. However, I have the same problem under Esix and I can
"fix" it by setting the environment variables COLUMNS and LINES to the
sizes after you resize your xterm.

	...Martin


Martin Schedlbauer				(mschedlb@ulowell.edu)
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854		(Tel: (508) 934-3612)