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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Large Terminal windows?
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Date: 13 Jan 89 18:30:15 GMT
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Earlier, I asked this question and was told about the -Lines and -Columns
options.  Doing a strings on the Terminal program also reveals these options:

	Columns
	Lines
	Font
	FontSize
	WinLocH
	WinLocV
	MenuLocH
	MenuLocV
	Shell

You can set these options in your defaults database;  I have done 

	% dwrite Terminal FontSize 11.5
	% dwrite Terminal Lines 40

to set the defaults.  To open sessions to other hosts, try

	% Terminal -Shell 'rlogin your.other.host'


By the way, is there an easy to to get the network applications to query the
domain name system?  You can apparently frob with ypserv, but this seems like
a huge hassle.  If the various applications are linked with the shared libc.a,
then you could replace gethostbyname() in the library.  There is, however,
no documentation on the 'mkshlib' program which I presume you need to use..




Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming