Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse
From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: autowrap
Message-ID: <1307@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 88 10:35:57 GMT
References: <1988Sep2.224258.27960@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1402@spp2.UUCP> <8439@smoke.ARPA>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <8439@smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <3854@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>> 4.3BSD keeps screen width information somewhere in its tty data
>> structures.
(Also screen height, if some program cares to set it.)
> Unfortunately they're only set while a window manager is in control.

Or when rloginned from somewhere else where the tty size is set.

> The standard login sequence really ought to set up this data as well
> as the TERM environment variable.

I strongly disagree.  This means that if you log in, your tty size gets
set to the size of whatever type the line is set to - such as "dialup",
"gandalf", etc.  Then when you explicitly set your terminal type,
you're stuck with the old, probably wrong, size.

					der Mouse

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