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#Toolbook,uhm.. not good

    04-May-93 09:26:16
Sb: #47596-#Toolbook,uhm.. not good
Fm: Ron Wodaski 75530,3711
To: Jack L. Chalker 72205,613
From your last message, it's clear(er) that your frustration has some history, which I didn't know. It is a shame that the software doesn't deliver what the hardware supports, but I suppose we're doomed to deal with that sort of cycle. For your info, not only does Nautilus support 640×480, but I often have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get my programs to run at 640×480. The problem comes from systems that not only run at 640×480, but also use very large fonts. That doesn't leave much real estate at all! (That's why TB apps don't even run at a full 640×480 on many, many systems, BTW.) Maybe I'm too easy going, but I'm not going to fight that when I have stuff to get out; I'll just use whatever annoys me the least and get on with it. I'll leave the noise-making to you, OK? It does need to be done; I hate to admit it, but many of the folks writing these tools can't hear anything less than a shout… That's about as close as you'll get me to complaining, though. <g> As for 1024×768, I'll see what I can do to provide the larger sizes when I provide bitmaps. When I capture video, of course, there's no point; the largest size is 640×480 there. But I'll be doing a column one of these days on a factal landscape generator, and I'll be sure to include some at the larger sizes. For the record, I work at 1280×1024, but I never use wallpaper. Ron