Mail Archives: opendos/1998/01/05/04:40:58
On 98-01-05 Dallas E. Legan wrote:
>Does anyone here know of any software to enable DOS to use 132 colums of text, like
>"MODE 132,(25/43/50)" does for OS/2?
Hm, AFAIK such an option was planned for Novell DOS MODE, but has been stripped
out before the release because some of the system s utilitities had problems in 132 modes
(132 rows are out of the range of standard modes, so there might be differences in
hardware implementation). However, there s hope, that such an option will eventually
show up in the future.
Most SVGA cards ship with a driver/utilities disk, which probably contains a mode switching
program for your hardware. Usually it s named SMODE, DMODE, EMODE, or VMODE, but
other names are possible. If you find such a program just use it instead of MODE.
Of course, you can also write a tiny program, which allows you to select any video-mode
(this will work for most SVGAs, if you know the approciate mode numbers). (E.g. search for
SETMODE etc. in the Internet.)
Matthias
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