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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: problem with Sun machines telnet'ing to HP 800's
Message-ID: <1340045@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 20:34:13 GMT
References: <7377@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> fouled up -- Jove and Vi just don't work.  It appears to be a problem
> with the application not knowing the length of the virtual screen
> (my guess) but try as we might to change the li# in the terminfo
> database we can't fix it.

The environment variables LINES and COLUMNS are honored (these are
significant to the termcap library).

for example,

   setenv LINES 36
   setenv COLUMNS 72

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Shankar.