There doesn't appear to be an equivalent to resize(1). Now normally programs like rxvt catch sigwinch and set LINES and COLUMNS accordingly but there are a few places where this breaks down.
Open an rxvt terminal at 25x80. echo $LINES. It dutifully reports 25. Now resize the window to ~30x80. echo $LINES. It will report the appropriate number of lines. Now rlogin to your own machine. echo $LINES. It reports 25! Resize your window a little smaller than 25 lines. echo $LINES. Still 25! Exit your rlogin. echo $LINES. It should report ~30 (whatever you had resized it to before you rlogin'ed). Resize the window again to around 25 lines. echo $LINES and it should resize to correct number of lines. Now try telnet instead. Telnet into your own machine. You will note that telnet will adjust the size of LINES and COLUMNS properly. For example, stretch your window so that you have around 50 lines. Now exit your telnet returning to your original connection. echo $LINES. It's back at whatever size you had before you telnet'ed. Therefore I think a resize command would be helpful to have (or if these problems noted above could be fixed...) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
