Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:14:06 +0200 Message-Id: <200202112114.g1BLE6T14104@unix.simonwiesel.co.il> From: "Ehud Karni" To: sk.mail@btinternet.com Cc: Scott.Prive@storigen.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: LINES environment variable In-reply-to: <026a01c1b335$b17a85c0$01000001@sknet01> (message from Stephano Mariani on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:52:53 -0000) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <026a01c1b335$b17a85c0$01000001@sknet01> X-Mailer: Emacs 21.1.1 rmail (send-msg 1.106) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:52:53 -0000, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I am using the windows 2000 command prompt, which does not impose a > limit (and is set to 80 anyway). Nevertheless, I tried this using rxvt > and found that the variable was not set (I cant imagine that the > environment variable was not `picked-up', something must be changing it, > and I just haven't figured out why). I have tried this under linux and > all was well, I am convinced that cygwin is involved. > > I have also set the variable as part of the global environment, and > after a reboot, found that all non-cygwin processes reported the correct > value, whereas cygwin processes did not. > > I will investigate when I have some more time. May I point you to 2 paragraphs in the `bash' man page (2.05): LINES Used by the select builtin command to determine the column length for print- ing selection lists. Automatically set upon receipt of a SIGWINCH. COLUMNS Used by the select builtin command to determine the terminal width when printing selection lists. Automatically set upon receipt of a SIGWINCH. and checkwinsize If set, bash checks the window size after each command and, if necessary, updates the values of LINES and COLUMNS. So bash is actively updating the `LINES' and `COLUMNS' (only if they are already in the environment). I hope this clarify the situation. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il Better Safe Than Sorry -- 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/