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From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xterm/vi resize broken
Date: 27 Sep 1996 02:09:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <52fd00$bd4@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Keywords: 2.1.5-release XFree86 xterm vi resize

In article <5240rv$hnd@news.cc.utah.edu>,
Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc@no.such.domain> 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`

I have noticed this problem if I rlogin to a FreeBSD 2.1.5
system.

"stty sane" and rerunning vi makes the problem go away.
I don't know why.  The output of "stty everything" does
not change (except of course for the rows and colums).

Dan Strick
dan@math.berkeley.edu