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Subject: Re: Indentation styles
To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:38:11 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605300432.WAA28640@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at May 29, 96 10:32:35 pm
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Barnacle Wes writes:
>
> 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!  ;^)

How do you get by with such a small display?  Only 40 lines?  I have
72, limited by the display resolution, and I could do with more.

Greg