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iraf.net Issue #118

[2.16.1] stty takes the wrong number of lines with xterm

closed olebole opened this issue on 2017-11-29

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olebole commented on 2017-11-29

When using xterm, the number of lines is not correctly recognized, which makes the pager (f.e. for help) showing crap. On an xterm, freshly opened with 24 lines:

$ echo $TERM  
xterm  
$ resize  
COLUMNS=80;  
LINES=24;  
export COLUMNS LINES;  
$ cl  
[...]  
vocl> stty   
xterm ncols=80 nlines=65   

Similar for columns, when the window was resized.

This does not happen when the terminal is set to xgterm, but then the graphics don’t work in xterm.

This happens with the binary 2.16.1 release from NOAO. And it happens on older Linux systems, like Scientific Linux 6 (2011) or Debian Wheezy (2013) as well as on newer systems (up to Debian testing).
And it was reported already years ago.

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Fixed in iraf-community/iraf#58

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Last updated on 2017-12-07