On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:58:35PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > The only odd thing is that it doesn't work at first because my default > > tty cols and rows are both set to 0 and sel checks that, it needs 80 > > cols; 25 rows is optional but anything else is wrong and will give odd > > results. > > You mean on the Hurd's /dev/console, right? Yes; after reading this I tried with telnet and it worked, it's just the console. > The initial settings are zero > on any terminal device. When using ptys, these values are set by whatever > sets up the pty (i.e. xterm uses window size, telnetd/sshd uses the value > from the client side terminal settings). I see. > > There is no automatic setting for the console device. It would be > reasonable to have something in rc that just did "stty rows 25 cols 80" to > get the right settings for the console. Indeed, maybe there are also other programs out there that rely on this settings, and all in all it wouldn't make any difference for those that doesn't. Best Regards, fsm -- Frederico S. Muñoz GNU http://www.gnu.org fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems
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