How can I expand the window size of a telnet session?

How can I expand the window size of a telnet session?

[Jamie Risk]

I've given up getting an XTerm session from my windows X
client working, and really all I want is large text window session.

So, how can I expand the window size of telnet session beyond
the anaemic dimensions of 80x25?




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Re: How can I expand the window size of a telnet session?

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:27 AM 12/19/02 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:
>I've given up getting an XTerm session from my windows X
>client working, and really all I want is large text window session.

"X client"? X is a server; client applications use it. And I'm assuming 
below that "windows" refers to some version of Microsoft Windows.

>So, how can I expand the window size of telnet session beyond
>the anaemic dimensions of 80x25?

Window size (in the form of characters per line and lines on the screen) is 
information that the terminal-emulator client (or the actual terminal, but 
that's pretty much ancient history) passes on to the server. Since your 
client is running on Windows, this is really a Windows question, save for 
the Linux advice that you use a client that supports larger window sizes.

As to Windows client selection ... I no longer do telnet sessions, but 
Putty communicates window resizing smoothly for ssh sessions (all I need to 
do is drag the window to a larger size), so it probably does the same for 
telnets. TerraTerm was clunkier in this respect (and many others), which is 
why I no longer use it. Beefore I switched to ssh, I did use a terminal app 
that also resized nicely for telnets, but I forget its name. No doubt a 
search of a Windows freeware/shareware archive like TUCOWS will turn up 
some other choices.


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Re: How can I expand the window size of a telnet session?

[Jamie Risk]

"Ray Olszewski" <ray@comarre.com> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.1.20021219083029.020b4840@celine...
> At 10:27 AM 12/19/02 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:
> >I've given up getting an XTerm session from my windows X
> >client working, and really all I want is large text window session.
>
> "X client"? X is a server; client applications use it. And I'm assuming
> below that "windows" refers to some version of Microsoft Windows.
>


ummm, I've been fiddling with XWin32, which I thought was X windows
manager that operated as a "client" logging into my Linux X-Windows
"server".

> No doubt a search of a Windows freeware/shareware archive like
> TUCOWS will turn up some other choices.

Thanks, I will.

- Jamie




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Re: How can I expand the window size of a telnet session?

[Ray Olszewski]

At 02:15 PM 12/19/02 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:
>[...]
> > "X client"? X is a server; client applications use it. And I'm assuming
> > below that "windows" refers to some version of Microsoft Windows.
>
>ummm, I've been fiddling with XWin32, which I thought was X windows
>manager that operated as a "client" logging into my Linux X-Windows
>"server".

I'm unfamiliar with that product, but a quick search found its home Web 
site at http://www.xwin32.dk/, and the docs there refer to it as a "PC X 
server". So I assume it is a fairly conventional implementation of X for 
Windows (there have been many over the years). With no details provided, it 
is not apparent why it is not working for you ... but to the extent that 
the problems are on the Windows end, this list is not likely to be a good 
place to work those out.

Another option you might want to consider is VNC. To use it, you run a 
server on the remote machine (in this case, the Linux host) and a client on 
the local workstation (in this case, the WinXX host). Your Linux distro 
probably have both vncserver and vncclient packages, and the usual sorts of 
searches will lead you to the Windows app.


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