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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: curses - problem... NO
Message-ID: <1899@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 17:47:49 GMT
References: <21708@adm.BRL.MIL> <8074@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <8074@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:

| 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. 

  You're right, but I think the original poster was saying "don't use
more than 80x24" rather than "don't bother to check for less." That's
open to interpretation, or course. I try to insure that anything I write
will run in 80x24, although some applications might take advantage of a
longer screen.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon