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Re: Resizing a terminal window
Hans Horn <hannes@2horns.com> writes:
> David,
>
> This took me forever to figure out!
>
> 'expect' does not forward SIGWINCH
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGWINCH) unless told to do so.
>
> Add the following snippet (between lines marked with
> ###################) to the beginning of your 'expect' script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> # \
> exec expect -f "$0" ${1+"$@"}
>
> ###################
> trap { # trap sigwinch and pass it to the child we spawned
> set rows [stty rows]
> set cols [stty columns]
> stty rows $rows columns $cols < $spawn_out(slave,name)
> } WINCH
> ###################
>
> set host [lindex $argv 0]
> ...
>
> I use this to log on from cygwin to various AIX and LINUX machines.
>
> Good luck and let me know how goes,
> Hans
That worked perfectly! Thank you very much, I don't think I would have
ever figured that out!
Dave
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