Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Input Line Editing Message-ID: <60001@sun.uucp> Date: 15 Jul 88 05:34:25 GMT References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <59697@sun.uucp> <9680@eddie.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 12 > 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.