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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Vi window size changes
Message-ID: <1991May17.122334.686@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 17 May 91 12:23:34 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I've run into a curious problem with vi on several occasions.  Normally
I run a 40-line window on the console and vi and other programs run fine.
But sometimes vi switches to an 8-line window when I invoke it!  From
then on every time I execute vi I get only 8 lines.  I can solve the
problem with "set window=40", but the only permanent fix is to close the
workspace and open a new one.  Other programs that depend on window size
(like less) work fine, and I cannot find any clues in my environment
variables.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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