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Re: Window Scale option

Kacheong Poon <kcpoon@jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM> Mon, 04 May 1998 22:35 UTC

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Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:33:56 -0700
From: Kacheong Poon <kcpoon@jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Kacheong Poon <kcpoon@jurassic.Eng.Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Window Scale option
To: David Borman <dab@bsdi.com>
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> So, assuming that we are not going to be changing how the Window
> Scale option works, do you have any problems with recommending
> the ability to turn around the window scale option?  And should
> it be a MAY or a SHOULD (I'll settle for MAY, but would like
> it to be SHOULD)?

I think it should be a MAY.  If you want it to be a SHOULD, I suggest
you to add that there must be a switch for the system administrator
to turn this behavior on and off.

							K. Poon.
							kcpoon@eng.sun.com

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