[net.micro.cbm] 20 column I/O for remote terminal

joe@loonam.UUCP (Joseph R. Mann) (02/13/85)

 Greetings,

    I have a friend that I am trying to enlighten about the 
greatness of unix.  Unfortunately the only thing he has to
use as a terminal, is a Vic-20, running Vic Term 1.

    Does anyone here have a good way to shrink the screen
length to 20 characters or less, for normal I/O?    I tried
the 'pr' utility, but it wants to chop everything off after
20 characters. 

  Any help will be greatly appreciated. (Thanks in advance)

roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (02/18/85)

>     Does anyone here have a good way to shrink the screen
> length to 20 characters or less, for normal I/O?

Assuming you have a terminfo (or possibly termcap) description for
the VIC, and you have CCA Emacs (possibly other versions, too) try
setting the screen width variable to 20 and running a shell in a window.
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