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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 24 lines in *nix?
Message-ID: <360012@hplvli.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 14:28:29 GMT
References: <11563@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Loveland Inst. Div
Lines: 25

andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy) writes:
>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.

1.  Notice that David Reed said "LINES" and "COLUMNS" (upper case), not 
    "lines" and "columns".  And they do work on HP-UX vi.

2.  HP has someone supporting vi, fixing bugs, making extensions for HP-UX.
    It could be that LINES/COLUMNS is HP-specific.

3.  MKS vi is a clone written by MKS.  Possibly this is one feature they
    missed.

Art Boyne, boynte@hplvla.hp.com