mckie@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (William McKie) (02/10/90)
Anyone know why vi wraps lines after 80 columns when using a TERM of vt100-w and the terminal is set to 132 columns? I'm seeing the problem on SunOS 4.0.3 and BSD 4.3 (termcap) systems, but not on Unicos 5.0 (terminfo) systems. Terminals tried included a real vt100, plus a HDS and a GraphOn-235 set to emulate a vt100. Thanx. mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov
romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang) (02/12/90)
| Anyone know why vi wraps lines after 80 columns when using | a TERM of vt100-w and the terminal is set to 132 columns? | I'm seeing the problem on SunOS 4.0.3 and BSD 4.3 (termcap) | systems, but not on Unicos 5.0 (terminfo) systems. [...] This sounds like you have the kernel window size structure set somewhere (i.e., stty rows 80), which would override the termcap information. You can check this with an "stty all". If this is the case, you can turn it off with "stty cols 0", which would make the termcap size dominate, or "stty cols 132". See the end of the tty(4) man page for the winsize info. This can happen on systems where rlogind or telnetd fail to clear the winsize structure on a new login, AND an old process retains access to the tty, preventing cleanup on last close. In contrast, I'm not aware of any terminfo implementations that support the notion of a window size in the kernel. -- "Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!" -Adlai Stevenson
meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) (02/14/90)
In article <101732@pyramid.pyramid.com> romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang) writes: | In contrast, I'm not aware of any terminfo implementations that support the | notion of a window size in the kernel. Systems that support both BSD and System V semantics would support terminfo and the BSD window size ioctl's. DG/UX from Data General is one such system. Suns are another (assuming you have /usr/5bin and /usr/5lib installed). -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so