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From: bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: RE: Codeview 3.05
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Date: 30 May 91 09:24:53 GMT
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> I just downloaded cvw305.zip from cica, and got it up and running...
> sort of.  I can get to the Codeview display and muck around there OK.
> The problem is when I switch back to Windows, with either the F4 or
> F5 key.  The screen becomes pattern of vertical stripes, and the
> mouse shows up only as movement of these stripes.  The only way to
> quit is to click where my winexit icon should be.

Phong, I grabbed that same file, and am happy (no, I'm ecstatic!) to
report that I don't have any of those problems on my XGA-equipped PS/2
model 80.  Windows is definitely using the XGA driver - the first thing
I tried was to run a debugging session on WINFRACT while it was
color-cycling.  All I did was to copy 'vcv.386' to my '\windows\system'
directory, add a 'driver=vcv.386' line to the '[386enh]' section of
SYSTEM.INI (the 'device=windebug.386' line was already there), copy
CVW.EXE and CV.HLP to my '\windev\ directory (after squirreling
away the older versions of those files in a safe place), and edit
the 'codeview' startup parameters to remove all the old '/' options
leftover from the days when I was using an 8514/A adapter and two
monitors.

Assuming that you've done similar steps, my guess is that there's a
problem with the interaction between CVW and your Hercules Graphics
station driver somehow.  Maybe you could (temporarily) use the SETUP
program to switch to the stock VGA video driver and see if CVW still
has problems there...


Bert Tyler
bert@helix.nih.gov
tub@cu.nih.gov