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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How does man know?
Summary: VT100
Keywords: more, io redirection
Message-ID: <9155@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 00:57:17 GMT
References: <319@massey.ac.nz> <11170@smoke.BRL.MIL> <592@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <2313@munnari.oz.au>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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> Well, you _couldn't_ change the size of the window on a terminal, so
> this problem never occurred to anyone.

Actually, you could (and still can) change the number of columns on a VT100,
which has "80 column mode" and "132 column mode."
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