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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.misc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: rlogin from windows
Message-ID: <707@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:48:47 GMT
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 24
Keywords: rlogin, windows, networks
Summary: How do you size windows over nets?

On a heterogenous (System V / Ultrix) TCP/IP network, several people
use 'rlogin' from windows, and are surprised when the computer on the
far side believes that they have the full complement of lines and
columns.  My suggested solution was to add to the third rlogin
protocol setup line (for which I can find no definition) a third
field, so it would look like:
	<$TERM>/<baud-rate>/<lines>x<columns>
Since the System V terminfo uses environment variables $LINES and
$COLUMNS, we could use those on the System V machines; and we'd have
to get the Berkeley machines somehow to modify $TERMCAP based on
$LINES and $COLUMNS.

But, first, I thought I'd turn to the net and see whether anyone else
had any solutions.  Has anyone else had to address this problem?

Thanks muchly.  Please reply by E-mail, as I am sufficiently swamped
as not to get to these newsgroups very often.

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