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- From: jerry@math.ep.utexas.EDU (Jerry)
- Subject: Re: Setting screen size
- Message-ID: <9212222009.AA19376@banach>
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- Organization: Department of Mathematical Sciences--University of Texas at El Paso
- References: <1992Dec22.012534.22729@times.aux.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:09:52 GMT
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- Roger Warner on December 22 wrote:
- -> Is there a way inside of emacs to change the number of lines emacs believes
- -> is on the screen?
- ->
- -> A quick perusal of the source shows that emacs checks for screen size via the
- -> signal() and ioctl()s. I frequently login to work from home via
- -> a Mac running NCSA telnet. I can and do display 32 lines on the screen and
- -> emacs refuses to acknowledge this. I also note that the LINES shell variable
- -> is ignored.
-
- We have the same problem using the Clarkson Univ. version of NCSA
- telnet via IBM PS/2's to connect to Sun workstations.
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- I don't work for Apple, should someone out there have the answer.
- Muchas gracias. -Jerry
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