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Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows
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> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:23:45 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
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> Is there any reason to believe the result should be correct? As I 
> pointed out in a previous message the information does not seem to be 
> available to the display driver.

It's quite clear that Windows does know something about the display
dimensions, otherwise they wouldn't be giving us this API.

And the result is quite close to the truth on my system.  Are they
wrong on yours?