In article <Xx0Ti.4081$b9.610@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"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.
>>
>> 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.
I must admit I've never tried any such "hybrid" DOS/Windows combos.
Come to that, I've never used 'Send To' for anything at all! Maybe I
should look deeper into some of the features of modern software! :-)
>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.
Thanks for that offer, Jud. I'd be interested to see how they work on
one or the other of my systems; so, if it's not too much trouble for
you, I'd like to accept your offer. (My email addy is only munged to
the extent that's clearly obvious.) Thanks very much.
>I have many such small utilities that I plan to add to my website - when
>I get around to it. :-)
Do you realise it's damn nearly Christmas *again*! :-)
Cheers, Phred.
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