[Tutor] slashes in paths

[Alan Gauld]

On 22/07/13 22:50, Jim Mooney wrote:

> I'm sticking to  20 pt Lucida Console on a big, full screen DOS box with
> navy letters and cyan background. If you have a big screen might as well
> use it. Why the DOS box defaults to being so tiny is beyond me.

Depends what you mean by tiny.
On a 1024x768 display its not that small, and with a multi-tasking OS 
you want to be able to do more than one thing at a time don't you?

Single window display is a throwback to the stone age of computing ..... 
err, or maybe forward to Windows 8? Go figure....

> letters. I didn't like it in DOS and I don't like it on the web. It's
> like being in the Negative Zone.

When I used an old VT220 on a VAX I always used to reverse the display 
to show black characters on a light (green or amber) screen. It used to 
freak out my colleagues who were traditionalist green on black men...
When I got upgraded to a VT340(!) I also set it to display 132 chars 
wide. Now that was really heretical! :-)

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Alan G
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