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Re: Which newsgroup for info on term and termcap settings
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Which newsgroup for info on term and termcap settings
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> "J. David Boyd" wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use a shell command to control the internal window size
> > of a shell, (if this is even possible).
> >
> > Which newsgroup should I look for information on this? Any ideas?
>
> What's this got to do with hippos and conspiracy theories? Surely you
> aren't asking a serious question on the talk list?
He's asking whether he can fit a hippo into a conch shell, and what has to
be done to the hippo to allow this...
I doubt stty will work on a hippo, though... Or on a conch shell... Or
on Cygwin...
Igor
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