TERMCAPs extensions...

faustus at ucbcad.UUCP faustus at ucbcad.UUCP
Wed Apr 10 17:48:51 AEST 1985


> The trouble with such simple schemes is that window sizes change,
> and one would like to be able to find out the present window size
> at will.  As a side-effect of Teletype 5620 DMD software development
> and probably Sun Microsystems work on windows, it appears that future
> releases of 4.nBSD will store window information in the terminal data
> structure and have ioctls for fetching and changing this information.

In fact there is a signal, SIGWINCH, in 4.3 which gets sent whenever a
window size changes. It gets propagated over rlogin, so your remote vi's
can know when you change your window size on a local sun, for instance...

	Wayne



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