Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!vaxine!encore!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!RSanders@USGS2-MULTICS.ARPA From: RSanders@USGS2-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: 132 column terminals and curses Message-ID: <8813@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:57:20 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8813 Posted: Fri Mar 1 10:57:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:06:00 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 20 Recently installed mon and top. About 10 minutes later, a user who likes 132 column mode of VT100 compatible terminal reports core dumps. Not really wanting to dive into hacking at that moment, came up with this trick: faketerm -------- #! /bin/sh TERM=$1 TERMCAP=/etc/termcap $* -------- usage: faketermcommand line In this particular instance: faketerm vt100 top seems to work. Ugly, but cheap. No warranties, expressed or implied... -- Rex