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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fonts on the Amiga
Message-ID: <2028@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 13:22:23 GMT
References: <3000@gryphon.CTS.COM> <4640@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Keywords: Fonts

In article <4640@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>Well, no, no extra information.  If you know from the font how wide
>the character was when writing it going to the right, then you can
>look at the same information to figure out how big a blank space to
>write going to the left.  You do still have the ASCII code for the
>character in the file you're editing, so you know what you are about
>to delete, right?

In the case of an editor program, sure, but not in the case of a generic
console window, where the characters that are on the screen are not saved
anywhere.  It's up to the application to decide to save the characters
that are on the screen.  Many applications don't need to save the
characters that have already been output.

Keith Doyle
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