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From: palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 24 lines in *nix?
Message-ID: <4409@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 10:07:31 GMT
References: <11563@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <11563@s.ms.uky.edu>, by simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales):
> I was wondering if anyone out there has ever gotten vi (*nix) to
> work on a terminal with more than 25 lines?   132 columns?
> 
> I have a termcap entry defined for 43 rows, but things like vi, rn,
> more, less, mail, etc, only use the top 25, ignoring the extra lines.
> 

  I hacked up Xenix termcap entry for an aaa terminal and used Telix
  (msdos comm program) in the 60line mode and vi seems to work with
  it.

  ---Bob

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