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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: standards for windowing software?
Message-ID: <7370241@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 90 04:48:38 GMT
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re: > This is how HP expects us to use their systems? 

No.  You forgot to quote my disclaimer.

> This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by,
> the Hewlett-Packard Company.  The above data is provided for informational
> purposes only.  It is supplied without warranty of any kind.

I am not a windows expert.  I just pitch in on comp.sys.hp whenever I have
an answer, or part of an answer.  In fact, I'm personally still using
"Windex" instead of X-11, due to inertia.  I have a variety of constant
window sizes that I use, and years ago hacked out the procedure I posted.  I
haven't had to think about it since.

> Why do I have to laboriously go through steps 1 to 5?  Isn't that the
> sort of job a computer can do?

There probably are more elegant solutions, and perhaps someone else will
post one.  Indeed, I was thinking about how to do a size readback just a few
days ago, but haven't refined it to code.

Bob Niland  Internet:rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM  UUCP:[hpfcse|hplabs]!hpfcrjn!rjn

Since your question concerns use of supported products, here's my other
standard postscript.

By the way, although an excellent medium for customer-to-customer exchange,
netnews is a very slow and capricious way to get questions answered by HP.
If you have either HP TeamLine or HP ResponseLine software support services,
you can direct questions about supported HP products to your regional HP
Response Center.  HP people who respond to netnews questions are donating
our time.  We do not have the full resources of a Response Center at our
disposal, and the person who knows the answer to any given question may not
be reading news this week, or month, or...