Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/10/14/15:56:13
Sigh. Okay, resize-this-stupid-Win9x-console.exe it will be. That's
probably unique. No, I'm just kidding. Any objections to
"resizeconsole.exe"? (other than length; if you want to alias it to
something shorter, that's fine -- I'm just talking about the default
name).
--Chuck
Steve Coleman wrote:
>
> "Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> >
> > A very good point. I had no idea another "size" existed. I'll rename to
> > "resize".
>
> There is also a standard binary in the standard X-Windows distribution
> called "resize". It's job is to set the environment to the current xterm
> geometry. The X user would first drag the window to the size they want
> then use resize to update the environment settings.
>
> Since the usage and syntax is different you might want to name it
> something to reflect what it does like resizeconsole (recon), or maybe
> consize, cmdsize, etc..
>
> The user of course can alias the "resize" command to whatever they want,
> or better yet, make the alias do the right thing based on the current
> terminal type. But it's best not to have multiple binaries named the
> same thing.
>
> NAME
> resize - set TERMCAP and terminal settings to current xterm
> window size
>
> SYNOPSIS
> resize [ -u | -c ] [ -s [ row col ] ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> Resize prints a shell command for setting the TERM and
> TERMCAP environment variables to indicate the current size
> of xterm window from which the command is run. For this
> output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as
> part of the command line (usually done with a shell alias or
> function) or else redirected to a file which can then be
> read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the
> following alias could be defined in the user's .cshrc:
>
> % alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
>
> --
> Steve Coleman <Steve DOT Coleman AT jhuapl DOT edu> http://www.jhuapl.edu/
> <<--------->> Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory <<---------->>
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