Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to rc.d scripts
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/12/2004 23:38:34
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:22:10AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote on Wed, 13 Oct 2004
> at 00:20:14 -0400 in <20041013002014.A18312@noc.untraceable.net>:
> 
> > ooh!  ooh!  can we also make it use TIOCGWINSZ so that it ends up
> > right-justified to the right edge of the screen, which is not
> > necessarily at 80 columns?
> 
> I think that's actually bad. Lots of cases where it can be wrong
> with serial consoles, etc.
> 
> I'd just as soon hardcode it to 80 and waste the space on bigger
> screens. And really, the formatting should look good on the lowest
> common denominator, anyhow.

The lowest common denominator is not a _narrower window_?

Dave

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