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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:27:59 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: rxvt, once again...
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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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