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Re: Re: terminal size problems
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Harold Levy wrote:
> > > If I open a 32-row xterm and rlogin into a unix machine, then run vim or
> > > mutt or less, these apps think the bottom of the screen is at row 24 ...
> > > they don't use the rows beyond that.
> >
> > Right, now I understand. Do you have the $TERM set correctly on the
> > remote machine? Did you try this over ssh rather than rlogin?
>
> Ah, things work with telnet but not rlogin ... does that hint at the
> cause of the problem?
>
> Thanks for your help Igor,
> -Harold
I suspect there's some difference in the environment that is either
propagated from the local machine or set via the shell startup files. Try
checking the value of $TERM in both cases. I bet one of them says
"cygwin" and the other says "vt100" or something... Also, try setting
TERM=vt100 in the Cygwin shell before rlogin -- does that help? If so,
the termcap/terminfo database on the Linux machine doesn't have an entry
for "cygwin", and should be updated.
Igor
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