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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:49:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: it's time... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111247560.14648-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908111634.KAA28760@mt.sri.com>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote:
> The most common case for a console is an 80 column wide console (this is
> the default for the virtual terminals, most printers, most text
> terminals, etc..)
> 
> Changing it is silly, and non-standard.

The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current
makes it easy to define the wrap point.  If some small number of people
want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its
unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader.

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| Matthew N. Dodd  | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD  |
| winter@jurai.net |       2 x '84 Volvo 245DL        | ix86,sparc,pmax |
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