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From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 120 columns displayed on VGA??
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.060404.15223@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 06:04:04 GMT
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bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu writes:

>How does one get a 100 or 120 column display with a VGA monitor (standard
>plain VGA card and monitor) using various application programs? Do I need
>to get an alternate font set somewhere, or is there some trick to doing 
>it.

Well, since a *standard* VGA text screen is only 720 pixels across, and you
want at least 1 pixel of "space" between characters, that leaves 5 pixels
for the width of the character. *maybe* you could do it with special fonts,
but it would be *ugly*. 

My advice is to buy a VGA card that supports a 132 column text mode!
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