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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem
Message-ID: <1005@faatcrl.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 04:17:25 GMT
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WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

>        The one who pointed out the one-pixel glitches to me originally
>(over a year ago) was Andy Finkel. He also told me that it was an OS
>bug. You are correct about the cause. SetSofStyle makes bold characters
>on occasion (maybe it was only the space) one pixel wider than the font's
>specified width. This, my dear, is a bug. Short of remembering exactly
>what is on the screen (including attributes) there is no way to fix it,
>although maybe Meshugena is meshugena enough (8) to do exactly that.

  So *that's* what that is, huh!  Well, one less problem I've got to worry
about that was driving me nuts with my optimized scroll routines...

  -jack-