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From: tzeng@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Ping-San Tzeng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EGA support in Jove.
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Date: 4 Mar 90 22:10:35 GMT
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In article <CHRIS.90Mar4120341@laplace.iesd.auc.dk> chris@iesd.auc.dk (Christian J. Callsen) writes:
>No, it does not preserve the video mode. I tried to set 43 lines
>manually, and then invoke Jove. But jove reset to 25 lines.
>

You need to set environment variable "EGA" to 1. Then JOVE will use the 43
line mode.
In fact, I have a Orchid Prodesigner and JOVE also works fine under its
40-line SuperVGA mode. The text is much better than the EGA-43 mode.

Ping-san.