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Article #311Re: job control
From: Moderator, John Quarterman
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 16:42
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 16:42
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From: shannon@sun.com (Bill Shannon) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 86 22:37:40 PDT > From: cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.COM!mark@seismo.css.gov (Mark Horton) > > ... > > (b) an ioctl to find out the current window size, in chars and pixels. I've argued this with the people at Berkeley and lost, but I'll try again here. I don't believe there should be an ioctl to find out the pixel size of a "window". This seems to me to be the wrong way to retrieve this information. The pixel size is of no use to programs that deal only in characters. Only programs manipulating windows will need to know the pixel size. Whatever mechanism is used to manipulate window should also be used to find out the pixel size of the window. (Of course, this may be, but is not required to be, ioctl's.) The tty subsystem, which deals only in characters, should not know anything about pixels or windows. Bill Shannon Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 57
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Re: job control Message-ID: <6003@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 12:42:39 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6003 Posted: Tue Oct 14 12:42:39 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Oct-86 00:55:18 EDT Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee Lines: 23 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu