🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1366@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>
>>For the safest operation, in order to handle hosts that mess up by assuming the
>>fixed size, my approach would be to allow any sized screen, but with a 'detent'
>>settting at 80*25 (shouldn't that be 24?).
>  
>  Hmmm, hadn't thought of it that way before.  24?  You're fogetting the status
>line....

Is the status line part of the normal screen as seen by the host? ie. does the
host explicitly write out the status line itself in the same way that it writes
out the rest of the lines? If not, I would not consider it part of the
'screen'. You will, of course, have to have room for it there, but for
communication purposes, it doesn't exist, so you only allow the host to muck
with a 24 line screen. If it is treated as a normal line by the host, then
ignore the above comments.

-larry

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