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From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 24 lines in *nix?
Message-ID: <5190009@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 89 18:25:06 GMT
References: <11563@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Lines: 7

The vi we use on our HP-UX systems looks for two environment variables,
LINES and COLUMNS.  These may not always be set properly on login (for 
many different reasons), but manually changing them to appropriate values
before running vi (if yours recognizes such variables) may be what you
should do.  (For example, using X-windows, it is possible to change your
window size to be some odd size not defined by termcap.  Thus, by setting
these variables I can adjust vi's operation to fit my adapted windows.)