Re: terminal size problems

2004-02-26 Thread Harold Levy
Hi, a few weeks ago I reported a problem with rlogin not transmitting the correct window size when run from cygwin. The fact that there was no problem with telnet gnawed at me, so I investigated the code differences and found that rlogin.c from the gnu inetutils distribution (e.g. 1.4.2) has flawe

Re: Re: terminal size problems

2004-02-04 Thread Harold Levy
> > Ah, things work with telnet but not rlogin ... does that hint at the > > cause of the problem? > I suspect there's some difference in the environment that is either > propagated from the local machine or set via the shell startup files. Try > checking the value of $TERM in both cases. $TERM

Re: Re: terminal size problems

2004-02-04 Thread Harold Levy
> > If I open a 32-row xterm and rlogin into a unix machine, then run vim or > > mutt or less, these apps think the bottom of the screen is at row 24 ... > > they don't use the rows beyond that. > > Right, now I understand. Do you have the $TERM set correctly on the > remote machine? Did you try

Re: Re: terminal size problems

2004-02-04 Thread Harold Levy
Thanks for the response Igor! >> Hi, when my cygwin terminals are sized to something other than 24 rows > I'm assuming you're talking about the command windows running bash. It happens whether running a command window with bash or running an xterm; the fact that it happens in and out of xfree mad