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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Subject: Re: lines per screen in Handshake
Message-ID: <1991May15.231612.9984@ms.uky.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
References: <1991May14.223503.24260@cadence.com> <1991May15.210626.17108@cs.cornell.edu>
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 23:16:12 GMT
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johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) writes:

>In article <1991May14.223503.24260@cadence.com> atul@cadence.com (Atul Srinivasan) writes:
>>I am logging in to a unix machine, and when I use utilities
>>like more/vi they recognize the page size correctly as 24 lines.
>>If I switch to 48 lines per screen, more still halts pages every
>>24 lines. Same for vi.

>	Well, I decided to post this since this is probably close to #1 on
>the List of Commonly Asked Questions that I get.  My answer will be relevant
>only for BSD-derived systems (i.e., BSD or SUN OS) since I have little to no
>experience with System-V or POSIX tty drivers.

For System V flavors of unix, try setting an environment variable LINES
to the number of lines, eg "LINES=48;export LINES".  There's a similar
variable COLUMNS for wide screens.

If this doesn't work, you have to create a custom terminfo description,
which is no big deal if your system has the untic utility.
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