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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.umi.com!jbrown!jbrown From: jbrown@umi.com (Jim Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pcvt and vi conflict? Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 13:54:27 Organization: University Microfilms Inc. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <jbrown.71.000DE8C7@umi.com> References: <32vtnd$3qc@jpunix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: someone.umi.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <32vtnd$3qc@jpunix.com> perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) writes: >From: perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) >Subject: pcvt and vi conflict? >Date: 18 Aug 1994 15:11:22 GMT >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I just installed pcvt under FreeBSD 1.1 on a 486/33. I think it's >a great add-on except for one problem. Vi now seems to be acting funny. >When I call up a file under vi, only the top part of the screen shows any >text. When I move down the page, the bottom part of the screen starts to >fill in. Page up and page down also exhibit this behavior. Is there some >sort of inconsistency or incompatibility between vi (elvis) supplied with >FreeBSD and pcvt? Can it be fixed somehow? Check, or better yet explicitly set the LINES environment variable to something near a full screen width. For Bourne shell try: ########## LINES=24; export LINES vi foo.bar ########## Vi and several other termio type programs often check the LINES variable to set the window length. HTH. >- -- > > John A. Perry - perry@jpunix.com > Finger perry@jpunix.com for PGP 2.6 public key. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: 2.6 >iQCVAgUBLlN6J1OTpEThrthvAQE1IgP/XLZTRzQrVRSswtSs48PoKmSIG+Gj5yDF >zD6ybg1cPJFZBKyA70epZ2SQ6U6XoIiEW0bSCMWNpG17jPVLYj0LF0a7IheLOa2d >SxCvXPjritjTEemcoTxiXG3pjAWW4s0r6P9zjdmPxX4Fsi7fErS7VYqSjU+36h+D >LTkbNwGo7wU= >=j5vN >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- == jbrown@umi.com , in real life Jim Brown | == == 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (USA) | Sit up straight. == == (313) 761-4700 x3227 | You're slouching... == ================ All opinions and comment expressly my own. ==============