shawn@mit-eddie (Shawn F. Mckay) (12/08/90)
Greetings, I wonder if someone could help me with a slight problem I'm having. I like the way NCSA Telnet can create a multi-color window, and it seems silly to be to have to strain my eyes with black on white when I have a high-res color display. Now, telnet'ing to my mac may be a neat idea, but the right thing to do would probably be to find out how to change the default for window creation under MacOs. With some luck, someone has done this, and they will have mercy and send me a pointer. The other option, is that someone has written something to change the colors of an active window, (also acceptable, though not nearly as nice), and they might have the mercy to send me their program or a pointer. The last option, is if someone is something to at least make MINIX create a large green on black window for me, which would make my day since I spend most of my time in MINIX on the mac anyway. I will poke around myself, but from what I have seen, my head is going to be killing me long before I find the right way to change this stuff on the mac. Help? :-) Thanks Much! -- Shawn
Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (12/15/90)
Shawn F. Mckay writes in a message on 07 Dec 90 to All: SFM> I like the way NCSA Telnet can create a multi-color window, and SFM> it seems silly to be to have to strain my eyes with black on SFM> white when I have a high-res color display. Ya know, I never understood this problem. Eye strain reading a black-on-white display??? Do _books_ give you eye strain???? sheesh. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
deane@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Rebel Without A Clue) (12/17/90)
In article <114779.276BD05A@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: > >Shawn F. Mckay writes in a message on 07 Dec 90 to All: > >SFM> I like the way NCSA Telnet can create a multi-color window, and >SFM> it seems silly to be to have to strain my eyes with black on >SFM> white when I have a high-res color display. > >Ya know, I never understood this problem. Eye strain reading a black-on-white >display??? Do _books_ give you eye strain???? > >sheesh. > >--Adam-- > >-- >Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH >UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix >INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG Yes, they do. Quite a lot of people, especially math/science/computer types, wear glasses due to the prodigious amount of reading they do. It isn't that hard to comprehend. Asking the Net a question is fine, but try to have more sensitivity about how you present it. And if that was a rhetorical question aimed at ridicule, then buzz off. Jim -- James "Rebel Without A Clue" Deane Institute for Astronomy deane@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu 2680 Woodlawn Dr "My God, it's full of *s!" Honolulu, HI 96822 Grad Student/Astronomer/Diver/Mac Technician
RMG3@psuvm.psu.edu (12/17/90)
In article <10693@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, deane@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Rebel Without A Clue) says: > Yes, they do. Quite a lot of people, especially math/science/computer >types, wear glasses due to the prodigious amount of reading they do. It >isn't that hard to comprehend. > Asking the Net a question is fine, but try to have more sensitivity >about how you present it. > And if that was a rhetorical question aimed at ridicule, then >buzz off. Perhaps you should be taking your own advice about sensitivity. According to my own unnamed source (I forget, my optometrist I believe) the notion that reading is a cause of people wearing glasses is nonsense. Urban mythology if you prefer. If you have a source for your statement and attack, please name it. Bob Grumbine a.k.a. rmg3@psuvm.psu.edu "It is much easier to hold an opinion than to defend it" Author?
Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) (12/18/90)
In article <114779.276BD05A@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes: > Shawn F. Mckay writes in a message on 07 Dec 90 to All: > > SFM> I like the way NCSA Telnet can create a multi-color window, and > SFM> it seems silly to be to have to strain my eyes with black on > SFM> white when I have a high-res color display. > > Ya know, I never understood this problem. Eye strain reading a > black-on-white display??? Do _books_ give you eye strain???? answer #1: Yes, if you read them 8 hours a day, 5 days or 6 days a week. answer #2: A terminal display is not the same as a book, it's more like staring at a light bulb. The writing on a light bulb is black on white too (except that it's a brigher white), try staring at a light bulb for eight hours and see what shape your eyes are in. Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu