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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:
>
> > > One consideration against this is that someone might write a program to
> > > switch the display into some special mode and expect it to stick.
> >
> > Let's make it default and add flag so those who don't want this
> > (undefault case) can disable this (like the stat() flags).
>
> Calling _exit instead of exit would be an easier way.
>
> But if there are popular programs out there that rely on exit not to
> change the mode, I'd hesitate to add that.

RHIDE/SETEdit restores the video mode, even if it was 80x30 or 80x50 or
anything. So if that's added we will need to turn it off.

SET

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