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From: paul@DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish)
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Subject: Re: window sizes for VT100 emulators?
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Date: 31 May 88 21:21:34 GMT
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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