On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:50:57AM -0800, William Kendrick wrote: > > [ regarding my problem running "tin" on my ISP's shell, while SSH'd in > from my Zaurus, I asked folks in my LUG whether 'screen' had a way of > providing a larger virtual screen than the terminal size, and then > allowing me to scroll/pan around ] > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:27:45AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > you might be able to fool tin by setting COLUMNS and LINES, but you'd > > need a way to scroll. surely the zaurius has some concept of a virtual > > screen? > > Currently, no. The two ways to resolve this include: > > 1. Rotating the terminal 90 degrees. (I can't do this, but I think > it's a feature coming soon.) Of course, this raises the issue of > how to type on the hardware keyboard w/o turning your head sideways :) > > 2. Making the terminal provide an "80 column emulation" mode, which, > when enabled, provides a horizontal scrollbar. >
Why not just create an appropriate termcap or terminfo entry for the Zaurus? I haven't looked, but I'd imagine there's already one on the Zaurus itself that would just need to be added to the machine in question. Then, when you log in, make sure your $TERM env var is set appropriately, and viola. This is how the problem was solved when I was using wireless devices on my Palm V to access various *nix systems. -- Mark C. Langston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems & Network Admin http://www.bitshift.org _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
