autowrap
Rick Adams
rick at seismo.CSS.GOV
Wed Sep 7 05:02:00 AEST 1988
> >4.3BSD keeps screen width information somewhere in its tty data
> >structures.
>
> Unfortunately they're only set while a window manager is in control.
> The standard login sequence really ought to set up this data as well
> as the TERM environment variable. But then, it may not be wise to
> make login depend on termcap either.
The 4.3bsd tset program sets the rows&columns if they aren't already set.
This is probably the place to do it, as it's already mucking around with
terminal types, etc.
--rick
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