Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!iros1!vedge!lai From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window? Keywords: xterm resize Message-ID: <2081@vedge.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 19:11:43 GMT Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, Quebec Lines: 20 2 problems: 1) How is a program able to tell the size of a pseudoterm's window. Is there a termcap entry which specifies that the screen can be resized? (The termcap man pages dont mention it). How does a program get 'signalled' when a resize occurs (ie. like vi doing a redraw after a resize) ? 2) How can the termcap be modified automatically when a 'resize' occurs, when not in a program (ie at the shell prompt)? This would be useful so that the next 'ls' or other such commands would output an appropriate number of columns. I am looking for a general case solution which should be able to be applied to various windowing systems. Does this involve a special tty/pty driver? -- "What is a DJ if he can't scratch?" - Uncle Jamms Army The views expressed are those of the author, and not of Visual Edge, nor Usenet. David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)