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Subject: Re: Resizeable xterms
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From: Ian T Zimmerman <itz AT lbin DOT com>
Date: 07 Jul 1999 16:06:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: Keith Starsmeare's message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:03:44 +0100"
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Starsmeare <kxs AT bigfoot DOT com> writes:

    Keith> I'm looking for xterms that resize properly (I am currently
    Keith> using Arlindo da Silva's X11R6.4 Libraries/Clients) as I'd
    Keith> like my windows to be larger than 25 rows.

    Keith> I've noticed though, that I can rlogin into a unix machine
    Keith> and type resize and on some machines it works, on others I
    Keith> can type "stty rows=76; resize" and that works. But neither
    Keith> of these methods work for me on a native xterm. :(

This is a problem with the Cygwin DLL.  See my yesterday post and
Chris' reply.  It seems we will only get this fixed if someone
volunteers a patch, but I have no time and negative will to get
involved with the Win API again (I left it behind 3 years ago and I
think it saved my sanity).

-- 
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107


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