Hi Roy.

14-Aug-03 04:13:37, Roy J. Tellason wrote to andrew clarke

 RJT> andrew clarke wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

 RJT> I still bump into software that doesn't deal with that very well,
 RJT>  or with me running in 50-line mode -- it seems to assume that
 RJT> there's only 25 lines,  and looks real funny.  Stuff like that

you should try running dos in 12x40 mode sometime :) I've only found two
fullscreen apps that can handle it (ted and list)

 RJT> OTOH,  I have *no* idea how one deals with some of these issues
 RJT> under linux, but again,  I don't have to worry about it for the
 RJT> most part at this stage of any programming I might want to do

(n)curses handles that....  you can even trap some signal in case the user
resizes the display/xterm (for example less does that)

 -=> Bye <=-

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