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From: Timothy.Mcilwee@p0.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Timothy Mcilwee)
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Subject: Re: Questions on technology
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

This response is in regards to the person who wanted info about
screen enlargers for unix.  I have a public domain program to
do just this for a Dos PC.  It allows you to read a text file and
enlarges the letters.  It doesn't enlarge letters in other programs
though.  The way it works is to find the pattern in ROM that the PC
uses to print letters on the screen (it builds them up with patterns of 
dots) and enlarges this pattern to be much larger.  Something similar
could be done on Unix systems, though it may be specific to the 
particular computer (or terminal) running unix.  This would be a good 
question to redirect to a Unix technical conference.

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