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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
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Date: 15 Jul 88 05:34:25 GMT
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> Consider an 80x24 terminal with a 256 character font.
> 
> What is wrong with this scheme?

99 44/100% of the terminals out there don't have 256-character fonts, so it
won't work on 99 44/100% of the terminals out there.  If you need a special
terminal for this, you might as well bite the bullet and get one of the X
terminals coming out; you won't be able to draw arbitrary pictures on the
screen with any sort of reasonable resolution with this hack.

If all you want an "X server on a dumb terminal" for is to have multiple
*character* windows on a dumb terminal, then as I pointed out there are *FAR*
better ways of getting multiple character windows.