In article <_MISi.2545$W9.1673@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>Some old graphics cards also supported VESA text modes of 80x60,
>132x25, 132x43, 132x50 and 132x60, and a few old DOS programs
>recognize and use them. I have one such program, Vernon D. Buerg's
>program LIST, that recognizes some of them. But I haven't successfully
>gotten it to use any of the VESA modes under NT based Windows (e.g.
>NT,2K,XP). I suspect the DOS emulator in Windows doesn't support
>VESA. Pity.
G'day Jud,
I'm not sure if this is really relevant to the above, but I'm still
using LIST 9.0e under Windows ME and XP Pro to do some pretty trivial
things such as print text from text files, find occurrences of
specified text strings, and look at binary files in LIST's hex mode.
It's still the quickest way I know to do these things! :-)
Now, all this works as expected in Win ME, but on the PC with XP Pro I
have to hit "p" *twice* each time to get it to print what's displayed
on-screen! I've always been curious to know what is swallowing the
first "p" -- the operating system, or just some glitch in the way the
printer is installed?
I should add this behaviour is similar whether using an old Brother
DMP or a slightly more modern HPLJ. Though the latter has another
problem which actually becomes a bit of a pain -- the damn thing won't
print a page until the page is full unless you send an explicit form
feed! Fortunately, my routine use for LIST involves invoking it from
a batch file, so it wasn't hard to solve that problem by telling the
batch to print a form feed when I exit from LIST. (Now that I think a
bit more about it, I suppose you could say the DMP behaves the same
way; but you don't have to wait for the page to be ejected before you
can read what's on it! :-)
Cheers, Phred.
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