Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!applix!jim
From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: more Hercules exit graphics mode issues...
Keywords: MCAMODE Hercules
Message-ID: <824@applix.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 16:21:47 GMT
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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Under Xenix 2.2.2 and 2.2.3, once you put the console into Hercules
graphics mode, you had to return to text mode using ioctl(SW_MCAMODE)
which is documented as "reset the monochrome adapter". Under 2.3,
this will fail, instead you have to use ioctl(SW_B80x25), which would
fail under 2.2.2/2.2.3. So if you are writing code to do this, to be
portable among 2.2 and 2.3, you should either:

    1) try ioctl(SW_MCAMODE), if it fails with -1 try ioctl(SW_B80x25)
		or
    2) use the cleaner but more verbose method of
	ioctl(CONS_CURRENT)
	if (MONO)
		ioctl(MCA_GET)
	....
	ioctl([reset with results of MCA_GET])

--
Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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