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From: CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 132 columns by 50 lines
Message-ID: <132000028@S55.Prime.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 14:31:00 GMT
References: <20667@cie.uoregon.edu>
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Nf-From: S55.Prime.COM!CUMMINGS    Jan  5 14:31:00 1990


/* Written  9:59 am  Jan  5, 1990 by dhw@itivax.UUCP in S55:comp.sys.ibm.pc */

> 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

No, No, No, NO, NO!  its your ANSI.SYS driver that insists on scrolling at
the 25th line.  I replaced mine with NANSI.SYS (and then NNANSI.SYS) and
80x43 works right on my EGA (as does 132x44).  The BIOS contains (if its
100% compatible) all the right screen information to correctly scroll your
screen in segment 40.  It's the software that ASSUMES your text mode is 80x25
that is usally the problem.
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