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(struct frame): Rename members height to text_lines, width to text_cols, window_height to total_lines, window_width to total_cols, new_height to new_text_lines, new_width to new_text_cols. All uses changed. (struct frame): New members which consolidate common members of x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures: left_pos, top_pos, pixel_height, pixel_width, x_pixels_diff, y_pixels_diff, win_gravity, size_hint_flags, border_width, internal_border_width, line_height, fringe_cols, left_fringe_width, right_fringe_width, want_fullscreen. All uses changed. (struct frame): New member column_width contaning the canonical column width, analogue to line_height. All uses changed. (struct frame): Rename members scroll_bar_pixel_width to config_scroll_bar_width, and scroll_bar_cols to config_scroll_bar_cols. All uses changed. (struct frame): New member scroll_bar_actual_width which consolidates and renames the vertical_scroll_bar_extra member of x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures. All uses changed. (FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from PIXEL_HEIGHT and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_height. (FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from PIXEL_WIDTH and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_width. (FRAME_LINES): Renamed from FRAME_HEIGHT. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->height. (FRAME_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WIDTH. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->width. (FRAME_NEW_HEIGHT, FRAME_NEW_WIDTH): Remove macros; change uses to update new_text_lines and new_text_cols members directly. (FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_PIXEL_WIDTH. All uses changed. (FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_COLS. All uses changed. (FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS, FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH and FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH, resp. All uses changed. (FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH, FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH) (FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH): New macros. (FRAME_TOTAL_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH. (SET_FRAME_COLS): Renamed from SET_FRAME_WIDTH. (FRAME_TOTAL_COLS_ARG): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH_ARG. (WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_COLUMN): Remove unused macro. (WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_HEIGHT): Remove unused macro. (FRAME_LINE_HEIGHT): Renamed from CANON_Y_UNIT. Unconditionally return line_height member (it now has proper value also for non-window frames). (FRAME_COLUMN_WIDTH): Renamed from CANON_X_UNIT. Unconditionally return new column_width member (rather than the default font width). (FRAME_FRINGE_COLS, FRAME_LEFT_FRINGE_WIDTH) (FRAME_RIGHT_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_X_... and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. Unconditionally return corresponding member of frame structure (they now have proper values also for non-window frames). (FRAME_TOTAL_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_FRINGE_WIDTH. Calculate return value from left and right widths. (FRAME_INTERNAL_BORDER_WIDTH): Unconditionally return internal_border_width member (has proper value for non-window frame). (FRAME_PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X): Renamed from PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X. (FRAME_PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y): Renamed from PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y. (FRAME_CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X. (FRAME_CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y. (FRAME_LINE_TO_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_ROW, consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h. (FRAME_COL_TO_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_COL, consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h. (FRAME_TEXT_COLS_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_TEXT_LINES_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_Y_TO_LINE): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_ROW consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_X_TO_COL): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_COL consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH_TO_TEXT_COLS): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT_TO_TEXT_LINES): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.

	   Protect Your Freedom to Write Programs
	   Join the League for Programming Freedom
	       (Version of February 3, 1994)

Ten years ago, programmers were allowed to write programs using all
the techniques they knew, and providing whatever features they felt
were useful.  This is no longer the case.  New monopolies, known as
software patents and interface copyrights, have taken away our freedom
of expression and our ability to do a good job.

"Look and feel" lawsuits attempt to monopolize well-known command
languages; some have succeeded.  Copyrights on command languages
enforce gratuitous incompatibility, close opportunities for
competition, and stifle incremental improvements.

Software patents are even more dangerous; they make every design
decision in the development of a program carry a risk of a lawsuit,
with draconian pretrial seizure.  It is difficult and expensive to
find out whether the techniques you consider using are patented; it is
impossible to find out whether they will be patented in the future.

The League for Programming Freedom is a grass-roots organization of
professors, students, businessmen, programmers and users dedicated to
bringing back the freedom to write programs.  The League is not
opposed to the legal system that Congress expressly established for
software--copyright on individual programs.  Our aim is to reverse the
recent changes that prevent programmers from doing their work.

The League works to abolish the new monopolies by publishing articles,
talking with public officials, denouncing egregious offenders, and
filing amicus curiae briefs, most notably against Lotus in its suit
against Borland.  We testified twice at the recent Patent Office
hearings on software patents.  We welcome suggestions for other
activities, as well as help in carrying them out.


(Added 2003) The League for Programming Freedom is inactive nowadays,
though its web site www.programming-freedom.org is still maintained.
It would be very useful to find a person who could take the initiative
to get the LPF operating again.  It will be a substantial job,
requiring persistence and working with a lawyer.  If you want to do
it, please write to [e-mail].