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- From: shannon@sun.com (Bill Shannon)
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 86 22:37:40 PDT
-
- > From: cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.COM!mark@seismo.css.gov (Mark Horton)
- >
- > ...
- >
- > (b) an ioctl to find out the current window size, in chars and pixels.
-
- I've argued this with the people at Berkeley and lost, but I'll try
- again here. I don't believe there should be an ioctl to find out
- the pixel size of a "window". This seems to me to be the wrong way
- to retrieve this information. The pixel size is of no use to programs
- that deal only in characters. Only programs manipulating windows will
- need to know the pixel size. Whatever mechanism is used to manipulate
- window should also be used to find out the pixel size of the window.
- (Of course, this may be, but is not required to be, ioctl's.) The tty
- subsystem, which deals only in characters, should not know anything
- about pixels or windows.
-
- Bill Shannon
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 57
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-