Re: Screwed Up Gnome Terminal

[Bob Taylor <brtaylor inreach com>]

In message <XFMail.20000805023143.bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>, Brett 
Castleber
ry writes:

[snip]

>  It would be
> interesting to know the reason behind this particular limitation of the
> terminal interface.  Something to do with the needs of teletype machines?

Quite so. Gnome-terminal, xterm etc. are "terminal emulators". 
Specifically a DEC (>=)vt100 terminal. None of which, to my 
knowledge, spoke proportional characters. So why bother with 
supporting proportional characters?

Bob

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