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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
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- References: <1993Jan1.184705.14563@midway.uchicago.edu- <1i58b7INNq26@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu> <1993Jan3.032235.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan5.135029.7546@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:04:25 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.135029.7546@linus.mitre.org> dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan3.032235.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>In article <1i58b7INNq26@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu> ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic) 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.
- >>
- >>--
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- >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.
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- I've never seen Desqview/X. But the ability of having a scroll buffer in
- your command window is a feature of X windows, not just DesqView/X.
-
- On my DECstation I use a 512 line scroll back buffer in the xterm's and
- I'll tell you that it is VERY nice to have! 512 lines takes at most
- somewhere around 40K of RAM, which is not much.
- (Not much! Sheesh, CP/M only gave me 57K of TPA... ARRGH! :-)
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- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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