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From: osbornk@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Kasey S. Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Glaring Blue Bar
Message-ID: <14430@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:25:30 GMT
References: <2244@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
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In article <2244@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>Aha! A kindly Microsoft employee finally told me that the glaring blue
>bar that appears at the top of the screen in text mode can be gotten
>rid of with the command:
>	HELP OFF
>
>For my next question, does anyone have:
>	1. A screen blanker for OS/2
>	2. A ram disk for OS/2

Specifically, the glaring bar is caused by the $i parameter in the line

prompt $i[$p]

in HELP.CMD.  Customizing the prompt without $i also makes this beast die.

Screen blanker?  Haven't heard of any.  Ram disk?  One comes with OS/2.
In my CONFIG.SYS I have:

device=c:\os2\vdisk.sys 256

to allocate a 256K ram disk.  Handy for a destination for my TMP variable.

Kasey
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