>From: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>

>I have been trying to set the environmental variables LINES and COLUMNS.   

>SHELL=/bin/tcsh

>Why can't I change them!  I noticed that this only happens from a telnet   
>and console session, setting them in an xterm works.

Read tcsh(1).  tcsh frobs these variables.
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