On Jul 15,  6:31am, der Mouse wrote:
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} With respect to the specific case of an i386 console, I suspect that
} you'll find very few real 25-line terminals, and also suspect you'll
} find comparatively few people willing to give up that 25th line for the
} sake of your desire for an unattainable perfect emulation of some real
} thing.  (As opposed to terminals which have a 25th line in hardware but
} make it accessible only as a "status" line of some sort, which of
} course would be emulable but would lose that line as far as most
} programs are concerned.)

     I would actually very much like to have an emulated status line.
MS-Kermit has it, and it is a feature that I miss.  I typically ran
"sysline" to keep information in the status line.  Other programs were
capable of using it as well.

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