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- From: glover@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Mike Glover)
- Subject: Re: A Little Terminfo question/problem...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.040623.22860@credit.erin.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Erindale Campus
- References: <BzE1xA.ALH@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:06:23 GMT
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- In article <BzE1xA.ALH@cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager) writes:
- >
- >Ladees and Germs,
- >Hi. I have a bit of a problem: it used to be, in the days of yore, that
- >when I ran my terminal emulator on my UNIX machine, I could do something
- >nonstandard like:
- >
- > stty rows 27
- > tset
- >
- >for my vt100 emulator, and on that 27-line emulator, it would work! Even
- >though the termcap file specifies that the vt100 has 24 lines. Now, however,
- >when I do this on the Sun Sparc running 4.1.x, the Sun insists on setting
- >the terminal to 24 lines. I guess it's because it's now using terminfo
- >instead. Well, how do I get it to believe that I have a 27-line vt100?
- >Make another terminfo entry (yuck!)?
- >Thanks!
- >-Mike
- Do a man on terminfo. This man page is huge but it will show you which tput
- command to do. I hope this helps.
-
- ttfn,
- Mike
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