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From: richr@ai.etl.army.mil (Richard Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Lines per Window
Message-ID: <262@ai.etl.army.mil>
Date: 10 Mar 89 16:14:00 GMT
Reply-To: richr@ai.etl.army.mil. (Richard Rosenthal)
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Organization: USAETL, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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How does "more" program know how many lines in 4Sight window?

Apparently not from termcap ...  iris-ansii says 40 lines, but,
if I shrink the window to only 4 or 5 lines more still works
fine.

I want to make "less" work like this, too.  "less" seems to only
use termcap.

Any answers?

-Rich

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