From: hesslinm AT pigeon DOT qut DOT edu DOT au (hessling mark ) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: lynx 2.7 and pdcurses under DOS. Date: 22 Mar 1997 11:20:54 GMT Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h0fam$ren@dove.qut.edu.au> References: Reply-To: M DOT Hessling AT qut DOT edu DOT au NNTP-Posting-Host: pigeon.qut.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp John Schucker (gwynn AT globaldialog DOT com) wrote: : So setting direct_video in curses won't work? It should, because I had : my display messed up, well actually I had things mapped into video : memory, and it thought it was a CGA, and it used BIOS writes, so : something in curses can do it. It should and does work. PDCurses determines what your video card is and if a CGA, it uses BIOS calls, otherwise it uses direct video memory writes. The reason for the BIOS calls for CGA were the good old days when you used to get "snow" on your CGA monitor if you used direct memory writes. I suppose I have to ask the question: Why do you want to use BIOS calls instead of direct memory writes ? The current PDCurses 2.3 I am working on has the ability to specify whether to use BIOS calls or direct video writes by setting an environment variable. This version has yet to be packaged for DJGPP, but will be once I finish some other more pressing work. Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Hessling Email: M DOT Hessling AT qut DOT edu DOT au PO Box 203 Phone: +617 3802 0800 Bellara http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/ QLD 4507 **** Maintainer PDCurses & REXX/SQL **** Australia ************* Author of THE ************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------