43/50 line VGA text under UNIX/386?

[pri=-5*Warren Tucker]

In article <3924 at segue.segue.com> jim at segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>In article <15877 at bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>>Has **ANYONE** come up with a version of the AT386 ANSI console driver
>>that supports more than 25 text lines on the VGA?
>If you are running ISC 2.2, you can do
>stty ENH_C80x43; echo "[=0;7C\c"; LINES=43

on SCO systems, XENIX and UNIX,

vidi e80x43
setenv LINEs=43  -or- LINES=43;export LINES
Note that with the above setup

1. only terminfo curses honors LINES; for termcap curses you need

ansi43:li#43:tc=ansi:

in /etc/termcap, then
setenv TERM ansi43

If you do this, though, terminfo wont understand the TERM, so
add this to /usr/lib/terminfo/terminfo.src

ansi43|ansi80x43|Ansi standard console 80x43,
	lines#43, use=ansi,

2. if you want to do this on more than a couple of multiscreens,
you'll need to relink your kernel after raising the value of 
SCRNMEM (128k is enought for 12 screens):

after doing all the above, TERM of ansi43 will do ya right.
 
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