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From: mh@roger.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: observations on the (9000/7x0 series)
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.191220.24869@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Date: 24 Jun 91 19:12:20 GMT
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In article <sherman.677580838@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
 >
 >>Yes i hated this too. it does not matter if there is some way to do it
 >>in the manual though, it should just do it by default. it does not even
 >>seem to understand anything but your standard terminal size. if you
 >>bring up a terminal with 34 lines vi should use 43 lines. And no i do
 >>not want to make a bunch of bogus terminal definitions for every size
  >>terminal that I want. I will probably resort to porting elvis to it if
 >>I have it long enough.
 >
 >Ahhhh, BSD types.  I can spot people like you on a mountain face 5 miles 
 >away while looking in the other direction.  SYSV does not include the 
 >special resize signal which BSD uses to tell non-X applications that the
 >window has resized.  (This signal is SIGWINCH [signal: WINdow CHanged] in 
 >BSD land).
 >
 >To tell the environment that you have resized a window, do the following:
 >if the system has 'resize', do a 
 >  eval `resize`
 >If not, do a (under csh, in this example)
 >  setenv LINES 24
 >  setenv COLUMNS 80

But, but... Is'nt the HP-UX kernel core basically a BSD one ?? Could'nt they
have just left SIGWINCH in ??