From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 06:02:20 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
cc:	"Paul J. Thompson" <thomppj AT okstate DOT edu>, dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk,
	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] TASKMGR problems, memory management
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> I've heard from a laptop user who got opendos up and talking
> who was doing fine until he ran setup and that crashed his system real
> hard.  One thing I've noticed with opendos when
> I ran dosbook.exe under msdos, opendos doesn't respect screen sizes
> specifically in terms of lines.  I have a 25x80 screen, but
> with opendos it was always 30x80.  I don't know what
> screen switching was done, but speech synthesizer users generally favor
> running in mono or cga at most.  The ega screens won't speak, and I have
> my doubts about the "better" resolutions under speech.

DOSBOOK switches to graphics mode (or so it seems), or else redefines
the VGA font very cleverly.  This can be prevented with a command line
switch.  I cant recall what it is though.  I'm sure someone will
mention it to you though.

Good luck and have fun!

Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant   |    My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
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