[SunHELP] Solaris equivalent of the w and c commands

Magnus Abrante sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed May 23 08:35:50 CDT 2001


On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:36:43AM -0500, Karl.Rossing at Federated.CA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are in the process  of getting off of our VMS system to sun. I'm 
> wondering if there is a Solaris equivalent to the vms w (wide mode or 132 
> colums) or (c mode 80 colums) for telnet windows.
> 
> I tried /usr/bin/stty columns 132 but that didn't seem to change it.

Try setting the LINES and COLUMNS variable in your shell, for example, in bash
that would be:
export COLUMNS=132

    //Magnus Abrante
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