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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: uw window resizing for BSD 4.2 kludge
Message-ID: <6063@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 06:35:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.6063
Posted: Fri Apr 24 06:35:29 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:37:19 EDT
References: <6028@dartvax.UUCP> <7280@mordor.s1.gov> <6060@dartvax.UUCP>
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Graduate Students
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Summary: Settings clarification

In article <6060@dartvax.UUCP>, earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
> In article <7280@mordor.s1.gov>, jdb@mordor.s1.gov (John Bruner) writes:
...
> > If you're using the UW server on a machine that doesn't handle window
> > resizing (i.e. 4.2BSD without something like Sun's TIOCSSIZE ioctl),
> > then you won't be able to change the actual size of the window on
> > the Mac (even if you select "actual size").  
> 
> I beg to differ, John.  If you set the window settings in uw to 
> "change view size" (I think that's right, I don't have my Mac here.)

Sorry, I just got back to my Mac and it is, indeed "Change Actual Size."
In other words, if you use the aliases I posted earlier to change the
line and column number entries in your environment TERMCAP variable, and
your uw windows are set for "Change Actual Size" then programs on the host
assume the new size, and the Mac goes along with it, even under 4.2BSD.
As far as I know, this trick should work with any program that looks up 
the terminal size under the TERMCAP entry.  Of course, resizing the window
while the program is running is out of the question, after all, it's still
a 4.2 host...