In a recent note, Duncan Simpson said:
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:13:35 +0000
>
> > > > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> >
> > M$ telnet (unless - I've read W2K telnet fixes this) doesn't pass resizing
> > information via SIGWINCH. Not lynx's fault.
>
> Which turns out to be irrelevent becuase I have the probloem using xterm on a
> couple of operating systems (solaris/SPARC and linux).
>
<sigh> In my .profile, and in a wretched case statement which depends
on OS, SHELL, phase of moon, and barometric pressure, I have
various statements such as:
rsWINCH() { echo "Caught SIGWINCH">&2; resize; }
trap rsWINCH WINCH
Bash is pretty good at handling SIGWINCH and setting LINES and COLUMNS.
Other shells do less well. In some cases I parse the output of
"stty -a" and set LINES and COLUMNS myself. On OS/390 I don't
have a working "resize", but someone just told me of one, and I'm
trying to compile it as I type. If there's a standard way to do
all this, I don't know it. </sigh>
And Lynx's behavior is reported to depend on whether you're using
ncurses or slang or whatever. My observation is that Lynx as I
compile it knows only the settings of LINES and COLUMNS when started,
and is completely insensitive to SIGWINCH. YMMV.
-- gil
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