petej@ssg0.pharmacia.com (Peter M. Jansson) (08/10/90)
If I issue the command: rcmd ssg0 xterm -display ssg2:0 the programs which use the screen size (more, vi, rn) understand the size of the window. On the other hand, if I issue: xterm -e rlogin ssg0 all program remain convinced that the window is the size defined by the termcap entry, regardless of the window's actual size. Why? Thanks, Pete.
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (08/11/90)
> If I issue the command: > rcmd ssg0 xterm -display ssg2:0 > the programs which use the screen size (more, vi, rn) understand the > size of the window. On the other hand, if I issue: > xterm -e rlogin ssg0 > all program remain convinced that the window is the size defined by > the termcap entry, regardless of the window's actual size. > Why? Either ssg2 has a broken rlogin or ssg0 has a broken rlogind.[%] The rlogin protocol has provisions for passing the terminal size through the connection; they should be doing so. The first command works because, of course, rlogin is not involved; xterm is running directly on ssg0. [%] I count as broken rlogins or rloginds that are so old they don't know about the window size protocol. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
ssd@rtmvax.UUCP (Steve Dick) (08/15/90)
>> If I issue the command: >> rcmd ssg0 xterm -display ssg2:0 >> the programs which use the screen size (more, vi, rn) understand the >> size of the window. On the other hand, if I issue: >> xterm -e rlogin ssg0 >> all program remain convinced that the window is the size defined by >> the termcap entry, regardless of the window's actual size. > >> Why? [stuff deleted] > The first command works because, of course, rlogin is not involved; > xterm is running directly on ssg0. I have a similar problem. It seems that when rlogin initially creates the connnection, it does not copy the size. If I resize the window after starting it, rlogin corrects the size. Is there some easy way to fix this other than resizing the window? I would like to know how to either a) get rlogin to copy the size initially or b) get X to tell rlogin to re-copy the size without actually changing the size of the window. Also, I've noticed that the Sun version of vi gets very unhappy if I resize its window bigger. (It usually works if I make it smaller.) I do not have this problem with the vi distributed with Encore's Gould machine. {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd}!peora!rtmvax!ssd ssd@ucfunix.engr.ucf.edu ucfunix!ssd@ucf-cs.ucf.edu