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- From: bjornw@colargol (Bjoern Wennberg)
- Subject: Re: Problem with XFree setting LINES w/ISC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.130333.23353@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Colargol, Trondheim College of Engineering
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- References: <BxL0v9.GJs@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 13:03:33 GMT
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- Charles Carlson (umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
- :
- : I just upgraded from the X11R3 that came with ISC 2.2.1 to XFree86.
- :
- : The problem I'm having is that XFree xterms don't set the LINES
- : environment variable like the X11R3 xterms did. This causes things like
- : vi and more to think I have a very large window when I don't.
- :
- : Other systems seem to use the rows setting of stty, but ISC, at least
- : in my version doesn't support rows.
- :
- : Anyway I can get this set automatically? Its a pain to have to remember
- : to type setenv LINES all the time.
- :
- : Charles
- :
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- Hi!
-
- You may want to run the program 'resize' which comes with X11R5 (and earlier).
-
- I have an alias called
- alias xs='set noglob; eval `resize`; unset noglob'
- and in my .bashrc file I run this alias if my TERM is xterm.
-
- bjornw>
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