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Article #1324Re: Continuing Windows Questions
From: Tim Villanueva
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 17:35
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1989 17:35
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>- Driver or Printer? The HP-PaintJet is so slow we have decided to
> buy new printers (looking at the Tektronics color printers...). How come
> windows, or the Paintjet driver, will not let us get more than six colors
> printed?
The driver dithers similarly to the screen drivers for EGA and VGA. Why?
I dunno, for consistency I suppose. I would like to get at the PURE colors
on the paintjet, and on the EGA/VGA - but windows only uses the bright solids.
>- How do you tell how much ext. or exp. memory you have (like in the about
> selection in win386)? GlobalCompact et al work on the 640k limit only and
> do not return this information (I think).
It is in the MS-DOS Executive ABOUT box for Windows 2.1 It returns
conventional, Expanded, and Disk Space, and even returns how much erxpanded
the disk cache is using.
Tim V
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