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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.030851.14353@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1i58b7INNq26@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu> <1993Jan3.032235.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan5.135029.7546@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:08:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.135029.7546@linus.mitre.org> dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767) writes:
- >>> Not to mention a scroll-bar. If there's one nice thing about NT, windows
- >>>have scroll bars with nice, LARGE buffers.
- >>See the OS/2 FAQ List for a suggestion on how to have 102 line
- >>windows. That's not too bad.
- >102 lines is not enough. What we want is a command window where lines that are
- >scrolled off of the top are saved in a buffer. The size of the buffer should
- >be configurable and be able to be redirected to a file. Since I've seen and
- >operated DeskView/X, I'm sold. If it would only run on top of a multitasking
- >kernel. Maybe Quarterdeck would consider porting it to OS/2 as a replacement
- >for the Worthless Shell.
-
- It is a relatively trivial matter to create a new command shell which
- supports more than 102 lines. Here's a suggestion for an enterprising
- programmer, if not IBM.
-
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