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Subject: conf/7613: src/etc/root/dot.profile sets bogus crt envariable
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>Number:         7613
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       src/etc/root/dot.profile sets bogus crt envariable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Aug 14 02:20:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sheldon Hearn
>Organization:
UUNET Internet Africa
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.2.7 out of the box for Intel machines

>Description:

	The src/etc/root/dot.profile sets the environment variable
	crt to 24 for correct paging within the mail(1) program.
	If crt is unset, no paging is done. However, according to
	the mail(1) manpage:

	|  If crt is set without a value, then the height of the
	|  ter- minal screen stored in the system is used to compute
	|  the threshold (see stty(1)).

	Therefore, to ensure correct paging in non-24-line modes, crt
	should be set to an empty value.

>How-To-Repeat:

	N/A

>Fix:
	
	The following patch changes root's .profile to setting the
	value of crt to ''. This makes for correct paging on a
	wider range of display types.

--- /usr/src/etc/root/dot.profile.ORIG	Sun Feb 15 16:31:55 1998
+++ /usr/src/etc/root/dot.profile	Fri Aug 14 11:12:55 1998
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
 PAGER=more
 export PAGER
 # make mail(1) happy:
-crt=24
+crt=''
 export crt
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