rxvt line wrapping

Tue Apr 6 18:17:00 GMT 2004

At 02:04 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>>I'm having two related problems with how rxvt wraps long command lines.
>Consider the small awk program (the first part is my prompt):
>>~/research/multilogit/data/eip-symptom[557] awk '{for(i=1; i<=3; ++i) printf("%s ", $i)}' longfilename.txt
>>(1) Rxvt wraps the line at some point (presumably column 80) even if the rxvt screen is much wider than 80 columns. The 'resize' command has no affect on this behavior.
>>(2) when the line wraps, rxvt does not begin a new line. It overwrites the beginning of the old line, which is very confusing. 
>>As a result, typing my little program in rxvt produces:
> ", $i); printf("\n")}' symptom-sorted.txt] awk '{for(i=1; i<=3; ++i) printf("%s 
>>Very confusing!!!
>Is there something I can do to get better line wrapping behavior?

Check your TERM? FWIW, with the information given I couldn't reproduce
your problem. Perhaps you should visit <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
if you need further assistance from the list.
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