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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news!ywliu From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0R: Problem with vi in a xterm Date: 6 Jan 1995 08:52:10 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3ej0bq$d2u@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <3ehjph$tk@kauss.rhein-main.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ywliu%@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Stephan Kauss (ska@kauss.rhein-main.de) wrote: : Hi Folk's, : I have problems with the "vi" in my xterm. : The "vi" use only 23 lines (My xterm has 38 lines). So if I edit a file : I type the ^l very offten. : The command "resize" didn't change the problem. I set the TERM and TERMCAP : variable correct. I have the same problem on several Unix platforms, including HP-UX, Sun Solaris 2.3,etc. I don't think this is a FreeBSD-related problem. I am not a Unix wizard and I don't know why. But all I can do to remedy this is : stty rows <any_number_you_want> Yen-Wei Liu