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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: resizing shelltool containing vi
Message-ID: <6496@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 19:17:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.072155.12296@TIRS.oz.au> <1991Mar06.034658.17775@convex.com> <1167@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The program is that SunOS vi does not support SIGWINCH.  This is incredibly
>stupid, in my opinion, since Suns are designed with the idea of running a
>window system.  The :ve command in SunOS vi gives "Version SVR3.1".  The
>administrators around here have installed a different version of vi (:ve gives
>"Version 3.7, 6/7/85.")

The ":ve" command in the SunOS 4.1[.x] "vi" gives "Version SVR3.1".  The
":ve" command in the SunOS 4.0[.x] "vi" gives - wait for it - "Version
3.7, 6/7/85."; that version doesn't support SIGWINCH, either.

> which handles SIGWINCH.

OK, just for laughs, try resizing the window while it's reading in a
large file, and see whether it finishes reading in the file or just
bails out as soon as you resize the window.  If it doesn't bail out,
find out where that version of "vi" came from, and ask them to send the
fixes back to Berkeley....