"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > When I run pine locally on the workstation, it fills just over half the
> > window (looks like 24 rows). The output from `echo $TERM` is 'xterm'.
> > Other programs (vim, less) behave the same way, i.e. they use 40 rows
> > through ssh on the server and 24 locally.
> 
> Sometimes the environment variables LINES (and COLUMNS) are set.

Also try using stty(1):

stty -a
stty rows 40
stty cols 80

etc.

Chris

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