Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: curses - problem... NO Message-ID: <8074@cs.yale.edu> Date: 10 Dec 89 17:17:25 GMT References: <21708@adm.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 17 In article <21708@adm.BRL.MIL> AGRISCS@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Don Ingli) writes: >Oh, try not to use LINES and COLUMNS in your programming... just assume >an 80 X 24 screen..... Remember, you want your programs written so that >they can be used with all emulators/terminals..... WHAT!!!! These statements are mutually contradictory. You had BETTER not assume 80 x 24 if you want your program to run on anything but old plain vanilla terminals. I won't even begin to enumerate the number of terminals that aren't this size. +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1538 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include