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Re: LYNX-DEV Re: lynx 132 mode


From: Hiram Lester, Jr.
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Re: lynx 132 mode
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 03:53:23 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Darin Reid <address@hidden> wrote to me instead of lynx-dev:
> >Hi, is there anyway to force Lynx (2.6) to operate in 132 col mode?
> > 
> >I used to log on to my vms account, do a set width 132, then rlogin
> >to my AIX account and use lynx in 132 column mode (everything is formatted
> >for 132 columns, centering, wrapping, etc).  I lost my VAX account,
> >unfortunatley, so that method is out.
> > 
> >I'm on a vt220, but if I set it to 132 colums, before starting lynx, the
> >screen is 132, but lynx only uses the first 80 columns.
> > 
> >As far as I know there is, nor has there ever been a Unix command to set the 
> >operating width of your vt terminal...
...
>       Lynx sizes the display based in the information it received about
> your screen width and height.  On VMS, your account undoubtedly was doing
> a SET TERM/INQUIRE to get it's information about your terminal from the
> terminal itself, which is most likely to be accurate (except for people
> using a crumby VTxxx emulator 8-).

It seems to me that part of the original question is "is it possibly to
give some unix command that will put the terminal into 132 column mode and
let the OS know at the same time?"...  On VMS, SET WIDTH=132 will not only
let the OS know that your terminal is 132 columns but on VT terminals will
even send the necessary codes to put them into 132 column mode. 
Similarly, SET WIDTH=80 will send the codes to flip them back into 80
column mode.  I think anything greater than 80 will send the terminal into
132 column, and 80 or less will put it into 80 columns. 

As far as I am aware, there is no way in Unix to do this automatically.
You will have to set the terminal into 132 column mode and tell unix using
one of the several techniques mentioned in other letters.  An alternative
would be to write your own shell script that sends the codes and tells
unix.

As to VMS's functionality in this regard, bear in mind that VT terminals
are made by DEC and VMS is made by DEC.  VMS takes advantage of many
features of VT terminals that other OS's don't.  I can't tell you how many
VT emulators I have tried that have broken on VMS but worked perfectly
well on Unix.

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