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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.153324.732@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 20 Dec 89 15:33:24 GMT
References: <338@denwa.uucp> <177@comcon.UUCP> <1989Dec17.095713.16315@agate.berkeley.edu> <182@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <182@comcon.UUCP> tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
>In article <1989Dec17.095713.16315@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>> Does WP 5.0 mean that graphics and page previewer are part of the
>> package? Short of a X-windows version how would they do make  it work
>> for all flavors of UNIX/386?

>Any flavor of unix that supports xenix binary compatibility has the
>required ioctl calls also to put whatever graphics card your are using
>into hires mode.  So, you can be reasonably sure of the graphics features 
>working on the console at least.

Unfortunately, this is true only up to EGA graphics resolution.
After that, the AT&T/Intel/SCO/Microsoft/ISC/whatever consortium
took completely different paths to VGA and super VGA graphics
resolutions.  Unless WP has built in knowledge of the mode
assignments which each UNIX variant uses for VGA graphics, it
won't fly using the kernel calls to set the graphics mode.

There are other methods to achieve what is needed, but the
kernel calls have grown warts. 

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