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- From: raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones)
- Subject: Re: How to avoid 'setenv LINES XX' ???
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:21:59 GMT
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- H Prasad Cherukuri (hpcg9070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : Mr. David Brooks writes:
- :
- : >Finally, you don't have to setenv directly. eval `resize` will do it.
- :
- : For some reason, eval 'resize' doesn't seem to be working on our series
- : 400 machines. We have the same problem as Mr. Meyer is facing. If I
- : set the environment variable LINES, then more, man and vi all
- : work just fine when the windows are resized. HOwever, eval 'resize'
- : doesn't seem to be doing the same thing.
- :
-
- Just in case it got lost on the screen, there is an important
- difference between single-quote characters. In David's post, the
- "resize" is between ` quotes (open single quote, with the ~ char on my
- 710's HP-US HIL keyboard) in Harish's post, he has put them in '
- quotes (close single quotes, with the " key on my HP US HIL keyboard).
-
- David's quotes are the correct ones...
-
- rick jones
- a wise set designer once said - "take care of the little things, and
- the big things will take care of themselves..."
-