On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:35:22AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, | Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >XTerms stick to the standard computer | >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the | >source (I presume a header file with such constants) - otherwise if you | >feel that you must use the non-standard 25th line, that is what | >.Xdefaults is for, as well as /etc/X11/Xresources/ - while most ncurses | >applications I've seen now work with whatever screen size they get, you | >may find some that will stick you with a bad line or confused scrolling | >because they expect strictly 80x24 (although that is thankfully getting | >quite rare, what with users of SVGATextMode and of framebuffer.) | | If you enter a university computer room you'll see that lots of | people run their xterms at 80x55 or so - and have been doing that | since the eighties. Without any problems.
If you use "telnet" on MS Windows (at least on 98 and NT4) it does two
things by default :
25 lines of display
TERM=vt100
Now /that/ is utterly broken. A vt100 doesn't have 25 lines, ever.
(it also caused me to fatally wreck my .login file a few years ago)
With xterm, however, TERM=xterm will allow curses applications to work
fine with any screen size. The key is using the correct terminfo
entry for your terminal.
-D
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