From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18153 invoked from network); 17 Jun 1999 11:40:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 17 Jun 1999 11:40:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 13757 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 1999 11:39:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6695 Received: (qmail 13750 invoked from network); 17 Jun 1999 11:39:48 -0000 From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Bart Schaefer" , Subject: RE: PATCH: 3.0.6-pre-4: COLUMNS/LINES environment handling Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:39:09 +0400 Message-ID: <002401beb8b6$03bdc680$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <990614094301.ZM19130@candle.brasslantern.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > > How much of all that needs to go in the manual? Lots of it should go in > the FAQ, including remarks about how it is broken in various versions if > we can figure that out. > Currently both LINES and COLUMNS are in section "Parameters used by shell". After this patch this is no more true (and presumably never was). So, at least, they should be moved to the section "Parameters set by shell" with explanation, when they are set. /andrej