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1.1       root        1: .TH RESIZE 1 "1 Nov 1986" "X Version 10"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: resize - reset TERMCAP with current size of a window
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B resize
                      6: [-u] [\-s [row col]]
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Resize
                      9: prints on its standard output the TERM and TERMCAP commands for
                     10: the C-shell of the current size of a window.  It is never executed directly,
                     11: but should be aliased similarly to
                     12: .IR tset (1)
                     13: to cause the C-shell to execute the commands.
                     14: .PP
                     15: Normally, VT102 escape sequences are used.
                     16: With the
                     17: .B \-s
                     18: option, Sun tty escape sequences are used, which has the advantage that
                     19: a new row and column size may be specified and the window will
                     20: resize appropriately.
                     21: .PP
                     22: For example, the following alias when executed as a command will reset
                     23: the environment of the current shell:
                     24: .sp
                     25:        alias xs        \'set noglob; eval \`resize\`\'
                     26: .br
                     27:        alias xrs       \'set noglob; eval \`resize \-s \e!\e*\`\'
                     28: .br
                     29: .PP
                     30: The
                     31: .B \-u
                     32: option will cause the commands to be formed appropriately for sh
                     33: (the Bourne shell) rather than csh.
                     34: .SH FILES
                     35: /etc/termcap   for the base termcap entry to modify.
                     36: .br
                     37: ~/.cshrc       user's alias for the command.
                     38: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     39: csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1)
                     40: .SH AUTHORS
                     41: Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
                     42: .br
                     43: Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
                     44: .br
                     45: See
                     46: .IR X (1)
                     47: for a complete copyright notice.
                     48: .SH BUGS
                     49: ``-u'' must appear to the left of ``-s'' if both are specified.
                     50: .PP
                     51: There should be some global notion of display size; termcap and
                     52: terminfo need to be rethought in the context of window systems.
                     53: (Fixed in 4.3BSD, and Ultrix-32 1.2)

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