From: Randy Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Sat Mar 01 1997 - 09:58:53 EST
At 11:04 AM 2/28/97 HST, David Ross wrote:
>> Resolution is not inversly proportional to font size! Since you can scale
>> your screen fonts to any size in Win95, the more pixels to form those
>> characters, the better.
>
>This is not always true. For example, the Terminal font in
>HyperTerminal only gives you a choice of 8 point and 9 point.
HyperTerminal is a piece of crap. Don't base resolution decisions of font
size on garbage software that Microsoft threw in for free with Windows.
Almost any *real* software package will allow you to change fonts and sizes
you use and/or magnification levels. I'm still using an old 1.0 version of
Procomm Plus for Windows that allows for this.
>Also, DOS apps aren't rescalable (without 'stretching', which looks
>dreadful, at least on my 800x600 Micron).
If you run DOS apps in a window, then you can do a lot to manipulate their
size. It might be when you purchase the Plus! pack, but there are fonts
just for DOS windows that allow for more size & selection variety for many
window sizes. Hence, just stay in Windows rather than going DOS
full-screen and playing the "stretchy game" and you can use that higher-res
screen in the manner in which it was designed for.
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Randy Whittle rwhittle_at_usa.net
Marshall Graduate School of Business at USC http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
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