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In article <830437620snz@musicman.demon.co.uk>,
Scott Mordecai  <scott@musicman.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>One is a Pentium with a MACH64 card, the other is also a pentium with a
>CL5436 card.  They just won't go into 132 columns.  I have tried Kermit on
>both PCs - on the mach64 machine Kermit does go into 132 cols, on the CL
>machine it doesn't (Kermit says it 'doesn't know how'!)

There is no universal support of 132 column text modes, in SVGA cards,
and no universal mode of enabling it.  As explained in the documentation
that comes with kermit, and probably also in the book, kermit will go
into 132 column mode for a small range of cards for which explicit
support has been coded and for any card for which there is a VESA driver
present (my card has this in the video BIOS) which supports the VESA 132
column text mode.

It will also go into a simulated 132 column mode if you set the right options
to allow it to emulate it with graphics modes.

You can also write your own programs to put it into and out of 132 column
mode if you can find specific command sequences for your video card.  The
ones I wrote are less than 10 byte .COM files.  The PC Interrupts Book 
(also available as less formatted text on the net) was where I got the
programming data for the card's BIOS.

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David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk