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Article #3903Re: Setting the number on lines on the screen
From: Sanjay Aiyagari
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 02:10
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 02:10
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In article <4913@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, flitter@atisun.dt.navy.mil (Lance Flitter) writes: > > I'm using MS-DOS 3.3 and I have VGA. I want to set the number of > lines to 44 to make use of the Hi-Res VGA fonts. I have used the setmode > command that came with the video adapter and this loads the proper > font but, the screen doesn't scroll properly. The systems still seems > to be using 24 lines. So, I'm assuming that there is a DOS call I > have to make to set the number of lines on the screen. > Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks. You need to use an ANSI driver that supports more than 25 lines. Examples of this are such drivers as ZANSI. Or, if you don't need to use an ANSI driver, you can remove the device=ansi.sys line from your config.sys. Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!hd7x From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Setting the number on lines on the screen Message-ID: <1990Dec13.221035.1612@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 02:10:35 GMT References: <4913@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Distribution: na,comp Lines: 15