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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ATTENTION! regarding WB2.0
Keywords: 4 months, just, wait, chill, out
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Date: 7 May 90 14:58:58 GMT
References: <48758@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <9004292324.AA15635@jade.berkeley.edu>
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In article <48758@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
writes:

> BTW. Neat discovery about 2.0 : The shell window buffers up enough text to
> fill up the entire screen. That means that you can have a small shell
> type in list or dir (which will scroll off of the screen) then resize the
> window to fill up the entire screen. The lost text will magically appear
> at the top to fill up the window!. Or if the window is narrow causing 
> lines to wrap around, widening it will case the lines to redraw full length.
> It's really cool!

Very neat, but it would be even neater (more neat?) if the shell window had
a vertical (and horizontal) scroll bar to let you get *several* screens back.


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W. John Guineau   			guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
Marlboro MA. 01752