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From: aptr@ur-tut.UUCP (The Wumpus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 80x50 display on 6300
Message-ID: <850@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 14:07:00 GMT
References: <3580@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> <685@uvm-gen.UUCP> <4829@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: aptr@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (The Wumpus)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <4829@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprrd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Richard Dervan) writes:
>I'm having trouble getting the 50 line mode.  It does go into the small
>letters, but it will not scroll past the 24th line and everything over-
>writes everything else on the last line.  Do you know what the problem
>could be?



The problem probably is related to having ANSI.SYS installed.  Some
of the versions of Ansi.sys (including some from AT&T) do not
understand the idea of an 80x50 screen.  They only know about 80x25.
This causes them to not generate a line feed at the end of the last
line.  I am not exactly sure why, but I think Ansi.sys is expecting
the display hardware to scroll the screen.  In 25 line mode this works
because the lst line is the 25th.  In 50 line mode, the last line is
the 50th and not the 25th.  The solution I suggest is to boot your
computer without Ansi.sys.

I hope this helps,

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