Re: Dwarf
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:44:31AM +0000, drsquare wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:16:13 +0100, in alt.ascii-art, > ("Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com>) wrote: > > >"Jeremy C B Nicoll" <Jer...@omba.demon.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet > >news:4af...@omba.demon.co.uk > >> In article <a0inmm$l3ntj$1...@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, > >> Joaquim G�ndara <cla...@lords.com> wrote: > >> > "Jeremy C B Nicoll" <Jer...@omba.demon.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet > >> > news:4af...@omba.demon.co.uk > >> > >> > > How long are the lines in this - they are all wrapped in my viewing > >> > > window; can anyone else see it properly? > >> > >> > I can, using a smaller font and a maximised window. > >> > >> > -jg > >> > >> I don't understand - a character has a width of "one" regardless of what > >> font it happens to be in, and my viewer window displays the standard 80 > >> characters wide. How can I make that bigger? > > > >Um. I have no idea. I meant "smaller font" as in "smaller font size". As in > >GUI. If you're in text mode, then AFAIK, there's no screen resolution higher > >than 80x50. > > You can have 130x60 or something stupid like that, but you need a quality > monitor and video card. > > -- > .. .. .' > ' ' .' ' > ':''.':':'':':''.':''. : :'':':''.':''. > : .'.' '..: : .' : .' : ''.'..: :..' : .' > : : : '..' : > : : : : > .' .' .' .' That's only is 'pure' text modes, under linux you can also do text consoles with the card in a graphics modes, like 1024x768 which gives massive consoles, using either framebuffers or svgatextmode. -- Benjamin Smith <bsm...@vtrl.co.uk, ben...@yahoo.co.uk>
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