Here is what I ended up doing. Creating a putty session with locked size. Aso

using the vi as designed it works well. I have included the putty.defs, putty.notes

and vi.notes.

Now everything is fine. Thanks for your help.

See attachments

Getting System-V-r2-VAX780:

For those running Arch the tar file is here. Simply download, untar

cd to it , type in ./unix

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XToKXIxZvs9LKNerkVbTNspMik7OnLrs/view?usp=drive_link

For other 64 bit Unix's use this image

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L-M8dGXogDpKutR0fpSkOkaEfNNH-1SZ/view?usp=drive_link

Getting System-V-r3-3b2-700 64bit:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16zJrq3USLFAVnoGtbh4GCIj685o_UQER/view?usp=drive_link

The above packages do not require any special software. It is all self contained.

-ken

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 6:08 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 4:00 PM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:

That’s not entirely true. The VT100 could switch modes from 80x24 to 132x14 (the latter was pretty ugly) or with the AVO 132x24.

I recall some VMS programs in v3.2 misbehaving when run in 132x24 mode...

Warner

------ Original Message ------

From "Mary Ann Horton" <mah@mhorton.net>

To tuhs@tuhs.org

Date 12/17/23, 5:51:00 PM

Subject [TUHS] Re: Compatibility question

The concept of a resizable window didn't appear until GUI interfaces. Originally the hardware terminal had one specific size and vi depended on the screen being that exact size. I suspect that SVr2 was in that category, as the Sun merger of SVr4 would have been the reason to incorporate it. So try a 24x80 window and see if it behaves.