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From: d88-mbe@sm.luth.se (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PAL vs NTSC screen sizes in coms progs
Message-ID: <1000@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 7 Jun 90 13:33:22 GMT
References: <8750@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:

>Further to an old thread in which some US folk claimed they couldn't
>imagine any use for a terminal emulator with more than 24 lines...

That's because of lack of imagination, I would say... :-)

>I just worked out how to set the line number on VMS! Now I can read most
>news posts in a single screen. Now, why isn't this better than a smaller 
>screen?

This is *very* easy in UNIX also. vt100 standards doesn't say anything about
the number of rows or columns. 'stty rows 35 columns 132' does the obvious
in UNIX.

Mike
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