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- From: ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic)
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- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 23:26:30 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
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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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- Not to mention a scroll-bar. If there's one nice thing about NT, windows
- have scroll bars with nice, LARGE buffers.
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- -e.b.
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- Eric Berggren | "We are Microsoft. UNIX is irrelevant.
- Computer Action Team | OS/2 is irrelevant. Openness is futile.
- ericb@ee.pdx.edu | Prepare to be assimilated." by prs@turing.org
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