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From: fangchin@elaine8.stanford.edu (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: why doesnt vi resize itself in xterm and other weirdness
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.215038.9834@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:50:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jan13.100440.2138@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>
>>	Another problem is that if you do rlogin and then vi on the
>>remote machine from an xterm, the vi window is always 25x80 no matter
>>what size your xterm is. Is there anything I should fix in xterm termcap?
>
I do remote login from my ESIX Rev D X's xterms to SUN, VAX8800, MIPS
5400, all run UNIX.  My modem program is CKermit or Pcomm.  I also do
rlogin from one UNIX machine to another all the time.   

I always can at least manually tell vi, emacs, less, more etc to adjust
to the right window size by typing (or including in appropriate login
initialization files, depending your shell):

stty cols c# rows r# [enter]

where c# is the desired column number (100 for example)
      r# is the desired row number  (42 for example)

Hope this helps

Regards

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@portia.stanford.edu