how to set number of lines

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <163 at jma.UUCP> max at jma.UUCP (Max Heffler @ Landmark Graphics) writes:
>I use X on many platforms, where the number of lines seems to default
>to 65 regardless of the size of the window I use.

The X window manager should tell the terminal handler for each window
what the window size is, and software such as "vi" should use that
information instead of what is specified in the termcap or terminfo
description.