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- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.184705.14563@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:47:05 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec17.000306.26852@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.000306.26852@midway.uchicago.edu> I wrote:
- >>A la DV/X or Windoze 3.1 in Enhanced mode...
- >Allow me to clarify. I know that you can run a DOS window, which runs
- >in a graphics mode and is a full 80x25, but only occupies about 2/3 of
- >the VGA screen. However, as far as I can tell, you cannot make it any
- >smaller than that without losing sight of part of the 80x25 screen.
- >In DV/X, for example, you can open a DOS window with scalable fonts, and
- >you can then resize the window as tiny as you please, and it will
- >continue to display a full 25x80 screen. Of course, the type gets
- >tinier and tinier as you go, until it becomes virtually unreadable.
- >But, it *does* work.
- >I would dearly love to be able to do this in OS/2...
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- An excellent idea for a future version of OS/2.
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- In principle it should be fairly easy to implement. One would need a
- monospaced ATM typeface (Courier, for example) to accomplish this
- feat.
-
- (I suspect a third party could do it pretty easily as well.)
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