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From: orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Where Norton's 40-line font comes from
Keywords: VGA font
Message-ID: <3277@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 15 May 91 15:55:28 GMT
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Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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Hello, I have a related question.

A friend of mine bought a Commodore lap-top (286, Phoenix BIOS, VGA screen)
This thing has something against software fonts.
Whenever I load a font, the screen shrinks leaving an unused area at
the bottom.
However, if i then run the norton commander, the screen goes back to
normal size but the font size remains the same (thus i get more lines
on the screen than i intended).
We think the problem is that there are 480 lines on the screen while a
"normal" VGA has only 400 in text modes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since my friend cannot use any
hebrew fonts on the laptop which reduces it to a paperweight status.

Thanx in advance,
        Alex.