Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU!paul From: paul@DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: window sizes for VT100 emulators? Message-ID: <8805312121.AA03505@delrio.cc.umich.edu> Date: 31 May 88 21:21:34 GMT References: <8805201300.aa08409@VGR.BRL.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Doug says (in part) Any reasonable screen-handling program in a 4.3BSD environment will take these values as overriding the ones in /etc/termcap. This is exactly right, but I would stress the "reasonable" and "4.3BSD". I use tip (from apollo and a sun) to get to a lame-frame, and telnet to other flavors of hosts, and find the style of sizing that involves writing an escape sequence to the emulator and getting a reply back with the screen size to be pretty handy. I sent a small shar package to the apollo list that does this. It is also available via anonymous ftp to mailrus.cc.umich.edu (35.1.1.26) as pub/winsize.tar. --paul