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On 19-May-2004, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:

> > 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.

Thanks, appreciate the response!

MikeF