[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Want more than 25 lines on VGA?

gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (01/12/89)

Hi,

Is there any commercial communication programm in which VT100 emulation mode
shows more than 25 lines on a VGA screen.

  I'd like to suggest that some hacker in the net program such mode for
the future KERMIT v2.33.

If you are interested, then you might start from the following program.
This almost works for KERMIT v2.31 except that it issues two local echos
every time you hit a key even in the no-local-echo setting.

                   Hugh    gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

  Actaully I got the program from the following posting.

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>Are there any PD utilities that can give 80 x 40-50 text on VGA?

Yes. Here it is, uuencoded:

begin 0666 mode5080.com
>N , S1"T$; 2LP#-$+02L "S(,T0M &Y!P3-$,T@

end

This thing should generate a 30 byte file called mode5080.com.
Here is the assembler code:

cseg    segment para public 'code'
        org     100h
SETMOD  proc far
        assume cs:cseg,ds:cseg
        mov     ax,3
        int     16
        mov     ah, 17
        mov     al, 18
        mov     bl, 0
        int     16
        mov     ah, 18
        mov     al, 0
        mov     bl, 32
        int     16
        mov     ah, 1
        mov     cx, 0407h
        int     16
        int     020h
SETMOD  endp
end     SETMOD
It can be reversed by typing "mode co80".

In DOS 3.3 dos itself runs just fine in this mode. So does WordPerfect
5.00, but precious little else.

Doug McDonald

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