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- From: guy@sun.com (Guy Harris)
- Date: Sun, 26 Oct 86 15:16:30 PST
-
- > As to what TIOCGWINSZ should return: for some situations character
- > cell array dimensions are appropriate; for others pixel array size
- > is appropriate.
-
- Bill Shannon's point was that those applications for which pixel array size
- is important are not necessarily going to be talking to a terminal-like
- interface. It is certainly *possible* to do graphics and window management
- through such an interface; whether this is *desirable* is another matter.
- Until it is established that all implementations will provide access to
- graphics or a window system through the terminal interface, it is
- inappropriate to require the terminal interface to supply data not
- applicable to plain text characters.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 93
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