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From: "Ian Zimmerman" <itz AT lbin DOT com>
To: <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>, "Stewart, Wayne" <wayne DOT stewart AT sonosite DOT com>,
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Subject: Re: bash sees all lines as 80 chars long
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:46:51 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Stewart, Wayne <wayne DOT stewart AT sonosite DOT com>; 'Ian Zimmerman'
<itz AT lbin DOT com>; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: bash sees all lines as 80 chars long


>--- "Stewart, Wayne" <wayne DOT stewart AT sonosite DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > >Execute 'stty size' again - it reflects
>> > >the change.
>> > >
>>
>> >
>> > Make Windows send bash a SIGWINCH when the size changes.
>> > Good luck :-)
>> >
>>
>> As above, after resizing the window and executing
>> 'stty size', I see the new window size in the
>> output of 'stty' which is a cygwin program, so the
>> new window's line length is available to cygwin.
>>
>> So, if the only issue is bash being *automatically*
>> notified of the window resize event - I'd be happy
>> with some manual process to tell bash of the new
>> line length, e.g., 'export COLUMNS=110' or something
>> similar.
>>
>> So does this mean that currently there is not even
>> a manual process to reset line length?
>> Is 80 chars for shell lines hard-coded in the
>> cygwin port?
>
>Hmm.  I don't see any problems with adjusting the size of the bash window
on NT
>4 sp3.  I just change the size of the window and voila all columns are
being
>used.  What are you executing that is giving you problems with column
sizes?
>How do you have the CYGWIN variable set?

amazon:~/slang$ printenv CYGWIN
tty
amazon:~/slang$


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