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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: autowrap
Summary: tset does it
Message-ID: <44409@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 6 Sep 88 19:02:00 GMT
References: <1988Sep2.224258.27960@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1402@spp2.UUCP> <8439@smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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> >4.3BSD keeps screen width information somewhere in its tty data
> >structures.
> 
> Unfortunately they're only set while a window manager is in control.
> The standard login sequence really ought to set up this data as well
> as the TERM environment variable.  But then, it may not be wise to
> make login depend on termcap either.

The 4.3bsd tset program sets the rows&columns if they aren't already set.
This is probably the place to do it, as it's already mucking around with
terminal types, etc.

--rick