Re: [cxterm-devel] change screen rows (25) in cygwin

[Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...>]

That's very wierd... I just did it (attached screenshots).
At first my vi looked broken, but then I remember I only had the terminfo
installed, so I checked vi and indeed vi is linked against
termcap, rather than ncurses, so I quickly appended
the termcap as well, and it worked like a charm. I can
even resize *after* launching either application
to have the content resizing dynamically. (vi does resize dynamically,
lynx just needs scrolling down and up again to pursuade it to do so).
With these termcap and terminfo files, you should set TERM to "cxterm"
(TERM is set to cxterm by default, in fact, if the termcap/terminfo
entries are found - otherwise it is set to xterm which is very
broken, because Xfree86's xterm is very much more advanced than
the version of  xterm from which cxterm derived, and current Xfree86's
xterm termcap/terminfo entry is very wrong for cxterm which is almost
8 years older). The correct way to install the termcap file is just
to append to the system one ( "cat cxterm.termcap >> /etc/termcap"),
and for terminfo, just to do "tic cxterm.terminfo". (The latter can be
done by an ordinary user, in which case the terminfo file is
installed under "$HOME/.terminfo/" rather than system-wide "/usr/share/terminfo"
for installation by root).

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 > ldd /usr/bin/vi
         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x4001d000)
         libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40022000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40033000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
 > ldd /usr/bin/lynx
         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4001d000)
         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4002b000)
         libssl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0 (0x40067000)
         libcrypto.so.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 (0x40098000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40195000)
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x402c8000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
 > lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a
Built on linux-gnu Mar  2 2003 15:40:43

 > vi --version
elvis 2.1_4
Copyright (c) 1995-1999 by Steve Kirkendall
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ho...@ya... wrote:
> Thank you. I tried with 5.2.2 by appending the termcap
> and converting the terminfo file with no error. But vi
> and lynx still behave the same, only 25 lines. Resize
> still doesn't work. Since my system is a little bit
> messy right now, I will continue trying (cvs 5.2.4).
> Thanks again.
> 
> John
>