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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 132 columns by 50 lines
Message-ID: <1899@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 07:20:11 GMT
References: <4731@itivax.iti.org>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) writes:

>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.

Actually, the problem is comman.com and/or ANSI.SYS. Get a copy of
4dos and you can use any screen size that your card supports. If
you need ANSI I'd recommend ANSI.COM from PC Magazine. It's 
uninstallable without a reboot, and can be set to disallow key
redefines.
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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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