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Subject: Re: Windows in ASCII 
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In article <1993Nov7.224515.29803@cs.wisc.edu> so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu writes:

>   ALL of them lack one or both of the following features that I
>   consider essential:
> 
>   . writing characters to a background window without first
>     popping that window up to the front.
> 
>     - essential for multitasking applications.
> 
>   . moving a window partly off the screen.  for example, I'll
>     send this command: window_move_right(window4, 30), which 
>     moves a window to the right 30 units.  If the right border
>     of that window is currently less than 30 units from the
>     edge of the screen, I'd like it to go partly off right 
>     part of the screen.  

I use PPP via a customised version of KA9Q (PC) called TextWin.
It can do all of the above, being an internally multitasking program
to allow serial access to the Internat as a real node.
So it's technically feasible, and for what it's worth, I think it's a great
idea. But then, I would, as I still use a Herculese mono screen :) If it
was good enough for my grandpa....

Hm... no OB-ASCII.ART as such, but here's a smiley I made up on the
spur of the moment when sorta flaming a friend:

<=3:-)   (DickHead)

If it doesn't already exist in the smiley dictionary, do you think
I'll get a mention? :)

Lance (Looking for fame)

-- 
Lance S. Buckley (LSB)  lance@avalon.demon.co.uk
Living on the edge of the Brentford Triangle...
Make mine a pint of Large! (*sniff* Do you smell creosote?)