Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1990Jul29.235310.6138 at pcrat.uucp> rick at pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
> see anything wrong with making console response as snappy as
> console response under, say, DOS.  Modulo the fact that the
> necessary console ioctl's are totally non-portable between
> the various UNIXes.

Plus, it'll break on a console driver that isn't quite what you're
expecting (such as the font problem that started this discussion, or
an unknown graphic card (say, IBM's new "XGA" standard).

The biggest problem with DOS is that it encourages programs to do this
sort of thing... and they break on the next generation, or on imperfect
clones, or whatever. Applications should not have to replace the O/S, and
on UNIX they don't.
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