On 25 Mar 2002 at 15:01, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote:
>On 2002-03-25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Anthony J. Albert> said:
>
> >I did, indeed, mean a knob that would change the vertical shape of
> >the screen, not by the number of lines, but by the height of the
> >physical area that the image is allowed to occupy. As I wrote
> >earlier, I had hoped that the "missing line" problem was a problem
> >with this adjustment.
>
>That brings us back to square one, then.
'Fraid so. Hmmm.
> >All SurvPC equiment has this appeal - it's one of the reasons why we
> >work with it, isn't it? :-)
>
>Oddly enough, I decided that an old version of Windows (v2.11) could be
>used on this machine to avoid the top line problem, since it allows for
>resizing each program window independently from the full screen and can
>work with the mere 1 MB of this machine, too. And there are a few other
>DOS programs where the top line poses few problems... ;-)
That may be best - a graphics mode may be a good way to get it to work
"correctly". I'm not sure if V2.11 of Windows will do that, but it
can't hurt to try.
Another thought occurs to me. If perhaps the monitor doesn't work
"right" in 25-line mode, it could be changed to 43 line or 50 line
modes, to see if that does the trick. You need to load the ANSI.SYS
driver in CONFIG.SYS with:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS (change the path as appropriate)
And then you can experiment at the command line with:
MODE CON:lines=43
MODE CON:lines=50
Another handy device to have for testing is a couple of plain text
files with each line numbered, 1, 2, 3, etc. They you can just use:
TYPE myfile25.txt
or TYPE myfile43.txt
or TYPE myfile50.txt
Good luck,
Anthony J. Albert
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