Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!oliveb!3comvax!bridge2!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window? Keywords: window standards layers xt Message-ID: <593@auspex.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 18:02:24 GMT References: <2081@vedge.UUCP> <6766@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <9042@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5444@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 13 >Do you think that a windowing system running on SysVr3 should support >the layers/xt ioctl for window size? (I don't mean whether it should >allow such a function, I presume you realize that if it supports more than one size of "tty window" (i.e., window in which you can run a program that wants to talk to a "dumb" terminal), it should allow such a function. >just whether it should use the same ioctl command code and return the >same data structure.) I think future S5 releases will have TIOCGWINSZ, 4.3BSD-style; you should probably consider supporting both.