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From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Herc 43 Line Text
Message-ID: <8387@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 90 13:58:06 GMT
References: <20957@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <20957@watdragon.waterloo.edu> trgauchat@lion.waterloo.edu (Terry Gauchat) writes:
>I have been desperately searching (though not hard) for a program which
>will switch a Herc compatible card into 43 (?) line text mode, from DOS.
>
>More specifically, I wish to use 43 line mode with WordPerfect 5.0.
>
>...Terry.


Well, I think you are out of luck here, Terry. A Hercules card is fully
compatible with the old IBM monochrome adapter, and as such has only the
standard 25X80 text mode.

You are probably thinking of having seen Microsoft Word running in 43 line
mode on a Hercules graphics card. Word does this by actually putting the
display in graphics mode and managing the whole thing itself. (I run it
in that mode and find it to be just LOVELY!) Unfortunately you can't
just do it for any ole program, since it is NOT a standard text mode.

Fred