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- From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
- Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
-
- In article <6004@ut-sally.UUCP> Larry Campbell
- <campbell%maynard.UUCP@harvisr.harvard.edu> writes:
- > Of course programs should (and most do) query termcap/terminfo. However,
- > they can safely assume that the window size isn't going to change while
- > they're running, and this assumption reduces complexity.
-
- Programs cannot safely assume that window size is not going to change,
- because on most overlapped window management systems it will. It is just
- too easy to set inappropriate window sizes and then need to adjust them.
- Consider creating a new which is almost the right size (say 75 characters
- wide) and then invoking an editor on a file of 80 character data. The
- editor will either wrap or truncate the data, and changing the window size
- to compensate will do nothing but frustate the user. What is needed is
- something like 4.3 BSD's WINCH signal, to advise those applications which
- care about such changes.
- --
- Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 65
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