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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:52:59 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, 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:  <199908111752.LAA29750@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908111744.LAA18270@harmony.village.org>
References:  <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111247560.14648-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> <199908111744.LAA18270@harmony.village.org>

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> : stty columns is only effective *AFTER* you have a shell and the box has
> : booted.
> 
> Yes I know that, but you seem to be arguing that all terminals have 80
> columns...  This is not the case, although many of them do.

Most of them do.  It is the 'least common denominator' that FreeBSD runs
into.  More than 132 columns is an exception, as well as less than 80
columns.

My point was not changing the boot message to more than 80 columns, like
you suggested.



Nate


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