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  3. March 2002

Re: Looking for the perfect 5250 client...

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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