From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: DJGPP AT DELORIE DOT COM
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 11:53:58 GMT
Subject: Misc
Message-ID: <3AB225146FC@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  (0) I sent a long message (Subject: Re: Windows for Workgroups taking a long
time loading files):-
> ... By `disk cache' do you mean c:\386spart.par or c:\windows\win386.swp ?
> ... Thankyou for your help. Today I set up another copy of WfWg ...

  I am sorry I inflicted all that on everybody; it was meant for Eli Zaretskii
only, but my emailer's reply mechanism's `Copy CC?' switch seems to have
sneaked itself `On' again. Sorry.

  (1) Many djgpp messages contain an alarming-sounding succession of v2 bug
reports. Where is an up-to-date V2 bug list? I am unwilling to switch to v2
until I know what bugs it has, so early in its development and history.

  (2) This may be some use to some people out there. When displaying stuff as
characters, I get sick of ascii-0 and ascii-32 and ascii-255 all showing alike
as space. So I wrote this little assembler program. When called it alter the
in-use copy of the 8*16 screen display font so that ascii-0 shows as a lazy
`[' with its ends pointing up, and ascii-255 as a lazy `[' with its ends
pointing down. (Lazy = turned 90deg.)

SCSEG	SEGMENT WORD PUBLIC
	ASSUME CS:SCSEG,DS:SCSEG,SS:SCSEG,ES:SCSEG
JMP START
my000 DB 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,081,081,0ff,0ff,000,000,000,000
my255 DB 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0ff,0ff,081,081,000,000
START:
 MOV AX,01110 ; load user-defined char
 MOV BX,01000 ; BH lines/char & bytes/char, EGA char table BL
 MOV CX,1 ; n chars in table
 MOV DX,000 ; 1st char to change
 MOV BP,OFFSET my000
 INT 010
 MOV AX,01110 ; load user-defined char
 MOV BX,01000 ; BH lines/char & bytes/char, EGA char table BL
 MOV CX,1 ; n chars in table
 MOV DX,255 ; 1st char to change
 MOV BP,OFFSET my255
 INT 010
 MOV AX,04C00      ; exit to DOS with error code 0
 INT 021
SCSEG ENDS