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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux
Date: 18 May 1997 06:35:16 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Peter Mutsaers
      wrote on 15 May (in article <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>):

=................................................... No nice
=high resolution text modes.

Not true :( vidcontrol(1) lets you set modes to 50x80 or 60x80 and others,
depending on what your hardware supports. It can also load fonts and change
back- and foregraound colors. Other things...

	-mi

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