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<STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG> User commands <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
to set the window size if <STRONG>tset</STRONG> is not able to obtain the window
size from the operating system.
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> In <EM>ncurses</EM>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> obtains the window size using <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG>, which may
- be from the operating system, the <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> In <EM>ncurses</EM>, <STRONG>tset</STRONG> obtains the window size using <STRONG><A HREF="curs_terminfo.3x.html">setupterm(3x)</A></STRONG>, which
+ may be from the operating system, the <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment
variables or the terminal description.
- Obtaining the window size from the terminal description is common to
- both implementations, but considered obsolescent. Its only practical
- use is for hardware terminals. Generally speaking, a window size would
- be unset only if there were some problem obtaining the value from the
- operating system (and <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> would still fail). For that reason,
- the <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment variables may be useful for working
- around window-size problems. Those have the drawback that if the
- window is resized, those variables must be recomputed and reassigned.
- To do this more easily, use the <STRONG>resize(1)</STRONG> program.
+ Obtaining the window size from a terminal's type description is common
+ to both implementations, but considered obsolescent. Its only
+ practical use is for hardware terminals. Generally, the window size
+ will remain uninitialized only if there were a problem obtaining the
+ value from the operating system (and <STRONG>setupterm</STRONG> would still fail). The
+ <EM>LINES</EM> and <EM>COLUMNS</EM> environment variables may thus be useful for working
+ around window-size problems, but have the drawback that if the window
+ is resized, their values must be recomputed and reassigned. The
+ <STRONG>resize(1)</STRONG> program distributed with <STRONG>xterm(1)</STRONG> assists this activity.
</PRE><H2><a name="h2-HISTORY">HISTORY</a></H2><PRE>
-ncurses 6.4 2024-03-16 <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
+ncurses 6.5 2024-04-27 <STRONG><A HREF="tset.1.html">tset(1)</A></STRONG>
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