On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:22:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The ones you called "weenie dos programmer" were not so "weenie", > because the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the > 90-95% of cases. > > Then that assumption was a standard "de facto"...
and it was proven to be a broken assumption when 80x43 and other screen sizes became common. as has been proven over and over again in the history of computing, hard-coding assumptions about screen size, terminal type, or other output characteristics is just plain wrong (and is doomed to cause significant problems in the near future). > Anyway, you didn't answer to my question ! yes i did. my answer was that you were asking the wrong question. craig -- craig sanders
