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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Window Flicker
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> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> From: mikef AT local DOT com
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:12:02 GMT
> 
> I'm the command line under XP.
> 
> Whenever I use any of the DJGPP commands; ls, less, etc,  the windows will
> flicker .  Is there a way to stop the window 'flicker'?

The only way to stop that is to ditch XP and downgrade to Widnows 9x.

The problem is that Windows XP (and all other descendants of the
Windows NT family) switch the emulated console to the standard DOS
dimensions as soon as they detect a DOS program that accesses the
video memory directly.  The DJGPP ports of Less and `ls' do that, so
you get punished by M$ for running DOS programs.