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Subject:  Re: window resizing not updating COLUMNS and LINES
Date:  Wed, 31 May 2006 18:47:24 -0500
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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> mwoehlke, le Wed 31 May 2006 17:19:15 -0500, a écrit :
>> Kenneth Nellis wrote:
>>> Same here...I do my own export to get things started. --Ken
>> 
>> Wait, wait, step back... this in itself sounds like a problem.
> 
> 'export COLUMNS' is needed for 'printenv COLUMNS' to work,
> since in the printenv case you need the variable to be
> transferred to the child printenv process.

Ok, that makes sense, although my understanding is that if the child 
process is 'bash' (including a script run by bash), then it will have a 
non-exported copy of the var set correctly. Or rather, it would/should 
if this was working at all.

-- 
Matthew
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