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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 03:22:01 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@obiwan.pmr.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: tgetnum wierdness on -current
Message-ID:  <kMPSVTlq_7@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <m0rt0MS-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com>; from Bob Willcox at Sun, 26 Mar 1995 16:00:40 -0600 (CST)
References:  <m0rt0MS-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com>

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In message <m0rt0MS-000300C@obiwan.pmr.com> Bob Willcox writes:

>On -current I have observed that tgetnum will *always* return 65
>for the number of lines when running in a remote xterm (running on
>a 1.1.5.1 system w/XFree86 3.1.1).  A local xterm or the console
>seems to be correct.  Is there a known compatibility problem between
>-current and 1.1.5.1 with xterms or is it likely that I'm doing
>something wrong?

I don't see any problem here, tgetnum("li") always return
what exactly specified in termcap, nothing more.
It is per-program task use ioctl to get window dims.

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