Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> Hi Roy.

 JB> 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

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

Why would I want to do that?

Mostly I try for more on the screen rather than less.  Right now the linux
box is in a 50x132 mode,  the other one I put in either 50-line or 43-line,
 depending,  as that's a monochrome vga monitor and very slightly smaller, 
and I haven't fiddled with fonts on that system yet.

I used to use 60 lines,  but found myself having to lean toward the screen
more of the time to read the stuff.

 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

 JB> (n)curses handles that....

I've seen some mention of that here and there,  never looked into it.  I
probably should.

 JB> you can even trap some signal in case the user resizes the 
 JB> display/xterm (for example less does that)

That's another thing I've seen that's poorly handled at times.

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