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From: Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net>
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Subject: Re: Indentation styles
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 22:32:35 -0600 (MDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199605290629.IAA17629@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 29, 96 08:29:09 am
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Michael Smith reported:
% Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8)

Joerg Wunsch retorted:
> That doesn't make it better readable.  Any text with more than ~ 60
> ... 70 characters per line is unreadable.
> 
> Not to speak about the eye-damaging small fonts required (not all of
> us can afford 29-inch monitors).

Nah, just get a 17" monitor and use 12-point Lucidasans Typewriter.
With a 1024x768 X screen, it looks great at 110x40 or so...  just
like what I see in front of me now!  ;^)

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