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You are certainly correct on the readability issue.  There are some ethernet
terminals out there that "do" 132 col but it is inherently unusable.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy1@bellsouth.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for the perfect 5250 client...


> Jerome,
>
> >How can it just be a font issue when it has to choose when to do 132col
and
> >when to do 80col.
>
> The issue was not whether it could do *DS4 mode (which should be a given
these
> days, IMHO), but rather the issue the readability when it is in 27x132.
And
> *that* is very much a font issue.  I've seen some 27x132 emulations that
"work"
> but do not meet Dan's criteria, which was:
>
> >The 27x132 mode is very readable.  I do all my editing in this mode.




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