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- From: shannon@sun.com (Bill Shannon)
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 86 00:19:53 PDT
-
- > From: bobr%zeus.tek.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (Robert Reed)
- > Organization: CAE Systems Division, Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR
- > Date: 15 Oct 86 12:23:31 PDT (Wed)
- >
- > Naive programs should have access to window size as character information,
- > but there are programs which do not manipulate windows which need window
- > size information in pixels.
-
- I'm still waiting to hear about such programs that aren't dependent on
- the particular window system they are running under.
-
- > Whether the tty system does know about pixels or not, it should. If the
- > window size information (in character units) is going to be accurate, window
- > sizes must be restricted to integrals of character size. With straight ttys
- > this is no problem, but if the system supports font changing, character size
- > can vary. Rather than require one call to find the window size and then
- > another call to find out what the units are, this information should be
- > consolidated into a single place.
-
- If you want both at once, the window system can do the consolidation.
-
- The tty driver should not know about pixels.
-
- Bill Shannon
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 92
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