Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:27:50 +1000 (AEST) From: Jason White To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: [opendos] Selecting "text mode" screen display in installation and utility programmes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk A few days ago, a subscriber to this list asked whether it was possible to set the OpenDOS installation and utility programmes to use standard text mode for screen display. The answer can be found in the readme.txt file that comes with OpenDOS: text mode may be selected in any of three ways. (1) Specify the /n parameter on the command line when running any of the affected programmes. (2) Edit the file named opendos.ini which can be found in the opendos directory, or on the first installation disk. Change the line which says: NEWUI = ON to read: NEWUI = OFF Note that once this change has been made, all of the programmes which obtain parameters for controlling the screen display fro opendos.ini will henceforth run in text mode. (3) The settings in opendos.ini, including the "text mode" selection, can also be changed via the setup programme. When the OpenDOS utilities are operating in text mode, the system's cursor always follows any highlight bar which is present on the screen. Specifically, the cursor appears immediately to the left of the highlight bar. This feature is extremely beneficial for those who are using braille or speech devices, together with screen access software, to interact with their computers. It should therefore be retained in future versions of the operating system. In the readme.txt file mentioned above, the opendos.ini file is erroneously called nwdos.ini. This is an error in the documentation. Jason White.