switching from xterm 80 col to 132 col

Jim - Thu 15/01/2015 01:24:47 CET +0100

Switching from PowerTerm wyse60 to Kitty xterm. In one of our Progress based procedures we have an editor widget that reads in text reports to allow the user to preview before printing. We need to change the TERM setting from 80 col to 132 col before realizing the editor on the screen and giving it focus.

We created a xtermw in Progress's Terminal library (Protermcap) as follows:

xtermw|wide xterm):\
     :ti=:\
     :te=:\
     :ws=:\
     :co#132:\
     :li#24:\
     :tc=xterm:

This effort has produced for us a reduction of the size (width) of the content by changing the font making the 80 column character size smaller (which we want) but also reducing the editor aswell - we wish the presentation of displaying all the characters across the screen (132 form factor).

This works fine when we switch in the PowerTerm from wyse60 80 column to 132 column but not with xterm.

Might anyone have a suggestion as to changing the current xtermw (wide) termcap entry to support displaying all 132 characters?

This probably is difficult to appreciate with out seeing the process, but if anyone has any recommendations, please comment.

Thank you

Jim

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