What does 'stty rows 24' give?

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On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > 	What was your screen size (cols x rows) again?
>
> The default that is coming up is 24x80, but the paging mechanisms in pg
> and vi and that kind of thing is maybe 36 lines.  Thus vi or pg loses
> about 12 lines off the top of the screen at each screenful.  The cursor
> is about 12 lines too high on any edit, and you can't determine where
> you are editing, except in ed.....(:+\\....
>
> One listmember suggested set the ttys from sun to sun-cgsix or something
> like that, and mentioned a classical cg6 bug.  I will check that email
> again, and try that when I get a monitor hooked up again.
>
> A serial terminal picked up vi correctly, when ttys is defined as vt100
> to give a 24x80 screen with proper positioning.
>
> When the thing panic dumped, it listed a cg6 thing in the message.
> When it ran, it had the above screen problem on the sun monitor/keyboard.
> When it ran, it ran fine off serial and vt100.
>
> It probably is something to do with cg6 (e.g. the GX framebuffer)
> and suncons?
>
> Bob
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