On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 14:53:21 -0400 (EDT), 

>vis a vis your ick, i turned it around and made pcvt (see patch below)
>nudge ddb to the correct size.  this became "necessary", since i find
>myself dropping into the debugger more and more frequently now that
>i'm hacking on the tcp stack.  :)

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> i still
>won't win if the machine panics and i've never manually done the drop.

Add a db_ function to ddb that takes console rows and columns.  Add
code, inside #ifdef DDB, to the various console packages, that updates
DDB's idea of the console display size.  Call this function whenever
the console screen changes.b (stty size on /dev/console, even.)

The function is, well, just nicer than exposing variable names :).