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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xterm/vi resize broken
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:25:51 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@no.such.domain>

Lloyd M Caldwell wrote:
>  2.1.0 (installed from walnut creek cdrom)
> could resize an xterm and vi would detect the new size.
> ...
>  2.1.5 (installed from walnut creek cdrom)
> no longer allows this.  I've tried eval `resize`

That's sure news to me - I use this in 2.1.5 all the time and it works
just great.  Are you sure it's not some local misconfiguration problem?
I'm totally unable to reproduce the symptom.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project