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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:02:30 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: rxvt, once again...
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Rui,

At 14:21 2002-12-23, Rui Carmo wrote:
>On Monday, Dec 23, 2002, at 11:58 Europe/Lisbon, Chris Game wrote:
>>That's interesting, but what's the advantage of rxvt over opening
>>cygwin/bash in a Windows command window, where all the formatting
>>options (except initial placement I grant you) are available from the
>>prompt window properties?
>
>The main of rxvt advantage for someone who uses Unix terminals extensively 
>is a fully dynamic, resizable terminal window - something the built-in 
>W2K/XP prompt cannot provide. And I mean "resizable" as in height _and_ width.

I've never had any trouble resizing character windows running BASH and Vim 
under Windows 2K, nor have I experienced any limits to how I can do so. I 
always have 5000 lines of scrolls back and when I'm dealing with logic code 
that produces huge formulas, I max the width out to the 170 characters that 
will fit on my monitor. All without trouble.

Randall Schulz


>...
>
>R.


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