How can I change the number of columns in telnet ?

[Thierry Doppler]

Hi,

I'm using telnet to connect an HP-UX machine, I want so see long path & files names, but with 80 columns, i missing some parts of long filenames. For example, the command top display only 11 characters.

Thanks you for your help.

Thierry

[Luk Vandenbussche · Accepted solution]

Hi Thierry,

What telnet emulation software are you using?
I use refection, here you can customize your columns.

I guess, it is a problem with your client software.

[Thierry Doppler]

OK, thanks you, i found the parameter in my client !

Thierry

[Sivakumar TS]

Dear Doppler,

If you use a plain windows telnet, you can use MODE command to set the columns.

With Regards,

Siva.

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi,
Take a man page of stty

Good Luck,

[Bill Hassell]

Telnet doesn't know anything about lines and columns. The shell (and HP-UX commands) pay attention to the setting for $LINES and $COLUMNS, two variables that are normally set automatically in your login profile. However, just setting COLUMNS=100 won't produce the desired result until your local terminal changes it's font and layout.

So you are correct to change your local terminal emulator to have longer lines. With modern terminal emulators, they will respond to screen size queries from the ttytype program, and set $COLUMNS correctly. You can see this by running the ttytype command manually: ttytype -s