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to: Phil Marlowe
from: Charles Angelich
date: 2003-02-19 01:03:22
subject: Big Video Fonts

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Hello Phil - 

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>>> With a little effort you could put wordpad.exe into
>>> PeepHole, my W31 on a diskette, to replace notepad.exe and
>>> not even need hard drives in the machines. 

>>  Make that WRITE.EXE, not WORDPAD.EXE. 

 Write. I mean right. [g] 

PM>> I don't quite follow. And what's a little effort? [You're
PM>> speaking to a barely technologically literate person
PM>> here.] I've noticed you mentioning PeepHole before and it
PM>> sounds intriguing; W31 on a diskette! Let me think about
PM>> this. 

>> If necessary I think I can whip up a WRITE.EXE version of
>> PeepHole in a few minutes. 

PM> All on a single floppy and go from there? I've gotta go
PM> back to your website and check it out. Great site BTW. 

Thank you. 

>> True Type does not exist for DOS that I am aware of. It
>> does, however exist within W31 and I do think reading
>> Gutenberg e-books is doable. 

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PM> Not that knowlegeable about monitors. And all my reference
PM> books are extremely skimpy on the subject. Most of the
PM> monitors are VGA, 12 - 14 inches, some better quality than
PM> others. We even have some in reserve. But I think it was
PM> mentioned here a couple of weeks back that they die if not
PM> in use?? 

I vaguely recall mention of that. 

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PM> Well, having to use whatever monitors are donated, we have
PM> no choice. I included that discussion mainly to point out
PM> that normally sighted people were bitching about Windows as
PM> well -- and for similar reasons. 

I've mentioned it to people about new larger monitors and even
smaller text than before on XP displays. I get the "you're the
only one complaining" response. :-\ 

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