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On 2007-10-08, Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
> Whiskers wrote:
>> On 2007-10-08, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>>> Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> doesn't work universally - you don't know how long every reader's screen
>>>> is...
>>>
>>> From the FSNKSA:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A screen MUST be no longer than 24 [1] lines and SHOULD be exactly 24
>>> lines.
>>>
>>> [1] 25 if Borg OS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>
>> Be thankful then that you aren't using my big laptop with slrn in an rxvt
>> 'window' 57 lines tall. Even the basic text console is 36 lines on this
>> machine, with quite large characters.
>>
>> Fortunately this is perfectly tolerable according to the WNKSA :)) (Oh
>> dear I don't like that acronym at all; we need a new one, fast!).
>
> slrn in rxvt has 61 lines here; also not a violation of the BNKSA.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many :))

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