"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>Some old graphics cards also sup****ted 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 sup****t
>>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! :-)
I use List Enhanced 2.0e which has a few features 9.0e doesn't, though
I don't remember what they are. :-) I wrote some small PowerBASIC
programs to do my file printing, but like you, I often use LIST to view
and search files. If you haven't thought about it, here is an idea for
LIST
that you might like. I created a shortcut to LIST, modified it for 80x50
lines and a suitable font, and placed it in my 'Start Menu' and 'Send To'
folders. LIST has icons for the purpose. I can right-click on a file,
click
on 'Send To' then the 'LIST' icon to quickly view the file.
If your printer is attached to the LPT ****t, you can print ASCII files
with
the console PRINT command, which works well from BAT files. If not,
I can email you the small PowerBASIC programs I wrote that print files
to the default Windows printer. One prints with headings, one without,
one also prints line numbers, etc.
I have many such small utilities that I plan to add to my website - when
I get around to it. :-)
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Judson McClendon judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
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