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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 132 columns by 50 lines
Message-ID: <4731@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 5 Jan 90 03:56:54 GMT
Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
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In article <1881@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
|kevins@CIE.UOREGON.EDU writes:
|>[...] can I set up my screen to display
|>text in 132 columns and 50 lines long?
|
|[...] you either need some sort of superVGA card or one of the
|monochrome cards that supports 132 column. We have some from Everex 
|that work well.

Have you found a way to get DOS to recognise the extra lines?  I
have no problem establishing the smaller-font text modes using VPMODE, 
but DOS still insists on scrolling at the 25th line, though this is
no longer at the bottom of the screen.

-David West       dhw@iti.org