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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: It ain't a 24x80 world anymore. Or is it?
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:55:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxzMFr.CtH@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <lux.722129357@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Nov19.090938.4906@ericsson.se>
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- In <1992Nov19.090938.4906@ericsson.se> etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
-
- >I
- >think that the problem with setting LINES is that you are telling the
- >program how long the screen is but curses still believes that it is 24.
-
- The LINES environment variable is used by System V terminfo based
- curses. System V curses doesn't care about the TERMCAP environment
- variable.
-
- That doesn't answer the original posters question though. Now if he
- would tell us if his laptop has a 35x80 screen display in the first
- place...
-
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
-
- AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem.
- IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
-