Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Don T. <dt...@to...>]

> > Various terminals the size of whose output can be changed with
> > 'set size' have a bug in current cvs.  When the size is increased
> > by setting the size with factors greater than one, 
> 
> So don't do that.
> 

It's not that easy for several reasons.

1. This resizing technique *used* to work and there are scripts out there
(some of which are mine) that rely on it.

2. For 'set term pbm' there is no size argument and a subsequent
'set size' command is the only way to change the size.  Try
'help set term pbm' and you will find that you are advised to
use size > 1. 

3. For other terminals, the documentation specifically states
that the size may be changed with 'set size'.  No warning that
size > 1 won't work.  And it still *does* work for the plots.  
It is only reasonable that it should work for the labels too.


I did not try to fix this myself because I am not sufficiently
familiar with the terminal driver code.  But my suspicion
is that it would be easier to restore the previous behavior
than to fix all the documentation to reflect the new behavior.

Don Taber