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- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:25:30 PST
- References: <1992Dec17.000306.26852@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.150802.23754@scott.skidmore.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.150802.23754@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Pierre von Kaenel | Skidmore College | pvonk@skidmore.edu
- In DV/X you have yor choice of standard or scalable windows.
-
- Lawrence Dee deel1@scvm1.saic.com
- speaking only for myself
-