Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/28/23:10:23
Hi,
At 19:19 2002-12-28, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Dockeen wrote:
>>Hmmm, my results are pretty much the opposite. In Win2000,
>>I can only resize the window in the vertical direction. In
>>Win98SE I could only resize it very slightly, if at all.
>
>Argh. Let's put an end to this once and for all.
>
>In the NT-based series (WinNT4, Win2K, XP Pro), the command window has two
>sets of parameters: the *screen buffer* size (width x height), and the
>*window* size (what's actually displayed of the buffer). The command
>window will put up an appropriate scrollbar if a buffer dimension is
>larger than the corresponding window dimension.
Isn't that what I said?
>In these OSes, you can drag a window and resize it *up to the buffer
>size*. Now, most of us typically set the buffer width and the window width
>as the same (80 chars), so you can't resize horizontally, but we *can*
>resize vertically if the buffer is larger than the window size (typically
>24 lines).
Isn't that what I said?
>In Win98 and Me, you cannot drag and expand the window, or set a buffer
>size larger than the window size. Period. Don't know if they have
>deliberately crippled XP Home to match Me (I don't have XP Home to check..)
>
>--
>Shankar.
Randall Schulz
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