Openwindows Cmdtool escape sequence broken
Dan Kegel
dank at blacks.jpl.nasa.gov
Fri Jun 28 06:22:00 AEST 1991
Environment: Sun 4/470 GX, SunOS 4.1.1b
Problem: The escape sequence \E[8;ROWS;COLSt when printed to a cmdtool
or shelltool is supposed to set the window size in characters. It does,
but not to the desired number of characters. This function worked
properly under Sunview.
Repeat-by:
Execute the command
echo '^[[8;25;80t'
where ^[ is the ESCAPE character. This should set the window width
to 80 cols. Then display a text file such as the following:
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
This demonstrates that the resulting line length is actually 87.
Reported-by: Dan Kegel (dank at blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)
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