How does man know?

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Sun Oct 8 10:57:17 AEST 1989


> Well, you _couldn't_ change the size of the window on a terminal, so
> this problem never occurred to anyone.

Actually, you could (and still can) change the number of columns on a VT100,
which has "80 column mode" and "132 column mode."
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