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In article <1hvsrcINNffl@zikzak.apana.org.au>, jamie@zikzak.apana.org.au (Jamie Scuglia) writes:
> When runnig a DOS application under WINDOWS 3.1, clicking the top left 
> corner of the window it is running in will reveal a menu like this:
> 
> RESTORE
> MOVE
> .....etc
> EDIT 
> SETTINGS
> FONTS

I'd never noticed this before, since I usually run DOS apps in full screen
mode (too many problems with comm packages aborting).

> 
> Now, I replaced the graphics display driver supplied with WINDOWS 3.1 with
> one that came on a disk with my TRIDENT video card.  I did this because
> WINDOWS had no 800x600 resolution drivers for 256 colors (it had only a
> 16 color one).  However, with the new TRIDENT driver, I now find that the
> "FONTS" menu option in the the above DOS window menu no longer exists!  It has
> been deleted from the options list!  This means that I can't change the 
> font size in the DOS application window unless I do either:
> 

I get the feeling you did something wrong.  I have a Trident 8900C, using
the Trident driver 1024x768, 256c, large.  I just tried what you described, and
I get fonts on the menu.  In fact, it gives me 10 choices for fonts.

I suggest you dig around in the manual again and also double check your
Windows Setup.  Something probably went wrong with the installation.

The thing I found tedious about the Trident installation is that I could
not do it directly off of the disk.  I had to run their program to unpack
it onto 3 floppies (I later learned I could have done it to hard disk or
ram disk just as easy), then run the Windows Setup program to install
it.  It was well worth it, though.

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