On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 06:50:17PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> ...and then Jeff Williams said...
> % I use a Psion S5 as a dumb terminal to connect to my office computer
> ...
> % problem is that the Psion screen, though it is supposed to be `vt100'
> % in most respects, is physically only 18 lines, and the display gets
> % scrambled. How can I tell Mutt to work with an 18 line x 80 column
> % screen? Thanks,
>
> Use your stty command to set the number of rows to 18 like
>
> stty rows 18
>
> or so. It's all up to the term; mutt doesn't have any number-of-rows
> setting (AFAIK...).
but the screen libraries do ($LINES and $COLUMNS environment variables,
for instance, if they cannot get the information from stty). Not all
stty commands have a rows or columns option (and I've run into at least
one - IRIX - where it does not work consistently.
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