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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:38:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Harold Levy <Harold DOT Levy AT synopsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Re: terminal size problems
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Harold Levy wrote:

> > > 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 this over ssh rather than rlogin?
>
> Ah, things work with telnet but not rlogin ... does that hint at the
> cause of the problem?
>
> Thanks for your help Igor,
> -Harold

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.  I bet one of them says
"cygwin" and the other says "vt100" or something...  Also, try setting
TERM=vt100 in the Cygwin shell before rlogin -- does that help?  If so,
the termcap/terminfo database on the Linux machine doesn't have an entry
for "cygwin", and should be updated.
	Igor
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