Re: Bug#3035: nvi dumps core
Raul Miller:
> >> ... vi dumps core every time I run it.
Steve Greenland:
> >Could you check the values of the environment variables ROWS and
> >COLUMNS? If they are 0, then it dumps core. It will be fixed in the
> >next release (RSN).
Austin Donnelly:
> I think a better test might be to look at the "rows" and "columns"
> output from typing "stty -a"
Indeed, this is what I did. And, having stty set rows and columns to
24 and 80 works around the problem.
[Incidentally, sorry about the anonymous mail -- I was running from a
root shell spawned by /bin/open from /etc/inittab, I didn't know that
it would come out as anonymous...]
--
Raul
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