RE: LINES and COLUMNS not getting updated

["Kenneth Nellis" <knellis at syntek-usa dot com>]

It turns out that this isn't an X-Windows/xterm issue.
The same behavior plays out with rxvt (version 2.7.10).
BTW, I've tried "shopt -s checkwinsize", but this had no effect.

--Ken Nellis

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:48 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: LINES and COLUMNS not getting updated

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:07:48AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote:
>In my Cygwin X-Windows xterm environment, I'm not seeing the LINES and
COLUMNS environment variables getting updated correctly after my window is
resized. Furthermore, "echo $COLUMNS" and "printenv COLUMNS" don't agree. (I
didn't see relevant articles in the archives.)
>
>It seems to start off working as expected, but soon fails. What seems to
work reliably is the following sequence in a new login shell:
>1) export COLUMNS=80
>2) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows 80
>3) # resize xterm window width
>4) printenv COLUMNS; # correctly shows new width
>
>Two interesting repeatable anomalies:
>1) If I omit step 2, the last step reports 80, regardless of the window
width; and
>2) "echo $COLUMNS" always reports 80, regardless of what printenv reports.
>Also, printenv seems frequently to get stuck at the value 94, regardless of
the actual width. This and many other anomalies don't seem to be repeatable.
>I observe LINES behaving similarly to COLUMNS.
>
>FWIW, I'm using:
>Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
>Cygwin DLL version 1.5.19
>xterm  6.8.2.0(202-1)
>xorg-x11-* 6.8.2.0-x
>bash 3.1-17(6)
>I'm starting my bash session within an xterm window with "xterm -e
/usr/bin/bash -l" from a standard startxwin.bat and TERM=xterm.

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