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Subject: Re: Re:  TERMCAPs extensions...
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 02:48:51 EST
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> The trouble with such simple schemes is that window sizes change,
> and one would like to be able to find out the present window size
> at will.  As a side-effect of Teletype 5620 DMD software development
> and probably Sun Microsystems work on windows, it appears that future
> releases of 4.nBSD will store window information in the terminal data
> structure and have ioctls for fetching and changing this information.

In fact there is a signal, SIGWINCH, in 4.3 which gets sent whenever a
window size changes. It gets propagated over rlogin, so your remote vi's
can know when you change your window size on a local sun, for instance...

	Wayne