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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Summary: What?  Huh?
Message-ID: <992@vsi.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 89 12:03:03 GMT
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In article <11064@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:
>Besides, who uses a character terminal any more :-) :-) :-) :-)

In article <9281@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Exactly.  That's why I don't support standardization of curses-like
> interfaces.  It's an idea whose time has gone.

Doug, you are living in a dream world, one full of idealistic fantasy.
You may like your Blit, but for every one of you, there are at least
50,000 people with Wyse 50s at their desks.  For the majority of these
people, a bitmapped interface would be massive overkill.

     No :-)

     Steve

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