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Date:Mon Dec 21 13:48:11 2001 
Subject:Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)... 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1011221.01 

Pete Goodeve wrote:

> http://jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu/pop11

Very nice!  Thanks, I've bookmarked it.

> reading
> through a ten-line window is a pain.

Yes, but there's no need to restrict yourself to that.  Esc-w will
switch back and forth between the half size and full size ved windows,
and of course you can make your xterm bigger as well.  There's also a
variable vedstartwindow that controls the number of lines in the window
that ved starts up in.  "vedscreenlength -> vedstartwindow;" in your
vedinit.p will make ved occupy the whole of your xterm window when it
starts up.

If you haven't recompiled the libc5 poplog to include the X interface,
you won't have xved available at the moment, but that gives you ved in
its own window whose size you can control like any other.  I didn't
include X in the libc5 poplog partly for reasons of size and partly
because I thought the main reason that most people would be running a
libc5 based Linux was that they had an old machine without much memory
or disk space that would have trouble running X.  

> On our Linux installation it [bzip2] wasn't present.  I built the 
> system myself, but I don't remember seeing it as an option.

Out of curiosity, I checked the RedHat ftp site, and bzip2 seems to have
come into their distributions with RedHat 5.1 in 1998, which is more
recent than I had imagined.

Regards,

Stephen Isard