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- From: gwyn@brl.arpa (VLD/VMB)
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 86 10:00:13 EDT
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- Many of us have long outgrown the fixed-size, constant-width font model
- of text characters. Such ideas as pagination to multiples of N text
- lines are not as useful as they might once have been. I would hope
- that simplistic models of terminal text do not become more deeply
- embedded in specifications such as POSIX. Limitations due to
- insufficiently general models are one of the worst problems with
- existing systems; we can do better.
-
- As to what TIOCGWINSZ should return: for some situations character
- cell array dimensions are appropriate; for others pixel array size
- is appropriate. It would be best to supply both, with the explanation
- that a "pixel" may just be a character cell for old-fashioned terminal
- devices (in which case both sets of dimensions would have the same
- numerical values).
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 80
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