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Re: A graphic window in text mode?

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From: Philip Smolen
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:35
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In article <Bs0w13.HLF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> macg9505@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Alan Corn) writes:
>IBM's newest wordprocessor offers a split screen mode which
>provides _both_ WYSIWYG and text mode at the same time.  My
>question is how is this done?  I'd like to bring up a graphic

A standard VGA adapter has a 16 color mode that is more precise that normal
80x25 text mode.  You can make text in graphics mode on a VGA monitor that
looks the same as text in text mode.

					--Phil
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From: phil@cs.utexas.edu (Philip Smolen)
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Subject: Re: A graphic window in text mode?
Date: 26 Jul 1992 23:35:32 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
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