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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: autowrapping terminals
Message-ID: <4541@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 12:27:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 26 12:27:22 1984
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> As to people who want a 99% solution with 10% of the code, I wish you
> the best of luck.  ...

Actually, a 99% solution with virtually no code is to set up your
screen-oriented programs so they simply *don't* *use* the last
column of the screen.  Sure, it's a waste, but in practice it seldom
bothers people.  The U of T paginator program, "p", wrapped lines one
character short for just this reason, and it was years before anybody
noticed.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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