[comp.os.vms] Easy way to switch a terminal to wide screen ?

RALPH@UHHEPG.BITNET (11/18/87)

Date: 14-NOV-1987 19:42:35.25
From: Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH AT UHHEPG
To:   BITNET::"info-vax@kl.sri.com",RALPH
Subj: Easy way to switch a terminal to wide screen ?
Hi everyone

I posted this two weeks ago, but it never made it through, so i just ask
again ...

Is there an easy way to switch the terminal to 132-character wide screen
and back (equivalent to SET SCREEN/WIDTH=nnn) from a program ?

I looked at $QIO with IO$_SENSEMODE and IO$_SETMODE modifiers, but i am just
too lazy to program all this. There must be an easier way, i just can't find it
in the shelf full of orange binders.

As usual: Respond to me, i'll summarize to the net. Thanx a lot in advance.

Ralph Becker-Szendy                                     RALPH@UHHEPG.BITNET
University of Hawaii / High Energy Physics Group              (808)948-7391
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