Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters Message-ID: <1990Jul31.101937.9157@pcrat.uucp> Date: 31 Jul 90 10:19:37 GMT References: Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 20 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1990Jul29.235310.6138@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >The biggest problem with DOS is that it encourages programs to do this >sort of thing... and they break on the next generation, or on imperfect >clones, or whatever. Applications should not have to replace the O/S, and >on UNIX they don't. Remember that a pre-condition was that ETI was fully supported, and John said it was. So, there is no chance this application will break. Just that you may not be able to get the additional performance. My point was that I see nothing wrong with making the display performance available as an option. -Rick -- Rick Richardson | Looking for FAX software for UNIX/386 ??? Ask About: |Mention PC Research,Inc.| FaxiX - UNIX Facsimile System (tm) |FAX# for uunet!pcrat!rick| FaxJet - HP LJ PCL to FAX (Send WP,Word,Pagemaker...)|Sample (201) 389-8963 | JetRoff - troff postprocessor for HP LaserJet and FAX|Output