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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pcvt and vi conflict?
Date: 19 Aug 1994 14:36:44 +0200
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In article <jbrown.71.000DE8C7@umi.com>, Jim Brown <jbrown@umi.com> wrote:
> 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
> ##########

Even better as the LINES/COLUMNS variables are old-fashioned :

use `eval resize`.

resize is part of the X11 distribution.

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Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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