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- From: keith@novell.com (Keith Brown)
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- Subject: Re: Font usage in Lan Workplace for DOS
- Keywords: font vt220 presenter
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.020424.14893@novell.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 02:04:24 GMT
- References: <133663@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
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- In article <133663@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> 445362@jester.llnl.gov (Grant Johnson) writes:
- >We're in the process of configuring Host Presenter for use with Oracle
- >on a Sun. Running windows in 640x480, none of the standard fonts fit
- >an 80x24 screen completely. They all cut off 2 characters.
-
- Clearly you weren't running Host Presenter when you typed your article.
- You had way more than 80 characters a line on your post! :-)
-
- Anyway, sounds like you have LWP v4.0. At the beginning of January the LWP
- people did a minor maintenance release that stomped on a few annoyances.
- This was one of them. LAN WorkPlace v4.01 does have some fonts that
- happily let you have 80 characters on a screen.
-
- >One more note, we're not necessarily commited to Host Presenter, we're
- >certainlly not impressed with the speed, documentation, etc.
-
- Well, I can't comment on the documentation because I've never read it!
- However, the blame for the poor scroll speed (which I myself complained
- about to the LWP developers) lies mainly with Windows. The obvious
- solution is to implement configurable multi-line jump scrolling.
- Fortunately, they were way ahead of me on this one. I've seen our
- latest HP running and it positively sings along (and it does lots of
- other totally wicked new stuff too!).
-
- When will the next release of LWP be in the shops? I don't know. You would
- have to ask Novell. ;-)
-
- Keith
- -
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