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- From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.150802.23754@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
- References: <1992Dec17.000306.26852@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:08:02 GMT
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- >
- >In DV/X, for example, you can open a DOS window with scalable fonts, and
- >you can then resize the window as tiny as you please, and it will
- >continue to display a full 25x80 screen. Of course, the type gets
- >tinier and tinier as you go, until it becomes virtually unreadable.
- >But, it *does* work.
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- Question: can you turn off this capability? Often, I shrink down a
- window so that it displays 2 or 3 lines, just what I need to see. I
- don't think I'd like the fonts to shrink down proportionately.
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