Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!andy
From: andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 24 lines in *nix?
Message-ID: <818@mks.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 19:44:05 GMT
References: <11563@s.ms.uky.edu> <5190009@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <5190009@hplsla.HP.COM> davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed) writes:
  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.)

I haven't been successful using lines (or rows) and columns.  I believe
that it is only used by xwindows for the window size and the resize
command resets these variables and the TERMCAP environment variable to
the correct window size which vi will use.
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