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"...
True, but there were (documented) ways to determine the height and width of the screen, under MS-DOS. Anything approaching code cleanliness should have used that as a base. I find it awful that the version distributed with Microsoft Windows '95 and Windows '98 of "route" prints its usage based on a 80x50 terminal - and does not output to stdout, so the user cannot pipe through "more" or similar! It is a good idea never to assume anything. -- Robert Hunter "I pack meat"
