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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: X11 bashing
Message-ID: <160@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Date: 7 May 91 09:47:54 GMT
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In article <9471@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:

>+My console is 42 lines by 80 columns.
>
>     And how easily can you change that (if at all)??? What, you mean you'll
>never want to change it??? What if you wanted to view a file that someone had
>entered on a > 80 column terminal, and you'd like to see each line on ONE
>physical line, instead of multiple physical lines???

The first time I need 132 column terminal was when we bought infamous ETA10.
Its fortrans sometimes output listing with 132 columns.

Solution? We told CDC/ETA not to do such a silly thing, of course.

Of course, as a workaround, I could have used VT100, though it can't
display Japanese characters.

>     Thanx, but I'll keep my X, bloated as it may be....

But, why?

						Masataka Ohta