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Re: X on Wearables (Was Re: Is the New Mac OS/WinNT Unix based?)

From: Geoff Parker <>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT)

Check out SVGAtextmode.  It's a linux program which allows you to change,
at the shell prompt, the font, font size, number of lines, etc of the
linux consoles.

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# Geoff Parker                                           

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, R. Paul McCarty wrote:

> That's funny, I have been using X _because_ of the font size/clarity
> issues. At the command line you can't change font types, and in X its easy
> to change fonts on the fly or have various windows with different font
> sizes.
> 
> The only reservation I have about using X is the amount of disk space and
> memory needed to run it.
>  
> -Paul

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