[18936] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.22: Linux/Athena console (login again?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Apr 30 17:50:25 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:50:23 -0400
Message-Id: <200104302150.RAA20629@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Jered Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18930] in Athena Bugs"
> When using bash, only 24 lines of the screen are used.
> Login to an account using csh or tcsh does not exhibit
> this problem.
I reproduced the problem, but it appears to be related to terminal
line initialization, regardless of the shell. Perhaps your [t]csh
login was to a different account, whose dotfiles touched the tty,
causing its size to get properly initialized? (I found that running
zwgc, for example, caused the tty size to get set properly).
It looks like the problem may be fixed in Athena 9.0, from a quick
check of a 9.0 alpha machine.
Bob
