ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) (12/18/86)
Ega43.com works fine on my little Taiwanese AT compat; less filling (about 50 bytes) and it works great. At least in DOS mode. That is probab- ly where the confusion arises. Individual pieces of software, such as word- processors or editors, have to have been written so as to be settable for 26+ line screens, and most probably aren't. WordPerfect, for instance, can be set quite nicely for 43 lines with one of the Alt-F8 menu items. The text editor I normally use can't, and what you see really is just half sized print scrolling at mid-page. Ted Holden, IMS
vanzandt@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (12/19/86)
I don't know about your taiwanese clone, but my American clone just generates a reduced screen in the upper left corner - when at the dos level. Now about WordPerfect: are you suggesting running ega43 and then entering WordPerf and setting the screen to 43 lines? If I just enter WordPerfect (without ega43) and set the screen length to 43 - I get nothing! The screen is blank but the keyboard still properly responds... Maybe ega43 is written for a particular EGA board clone. Mine is a Paradise AutoSwitch (with Auto turned off)... +=============================================================================+ | Lonnie VanZandt University of Illinois Dept. of CS (217) 333-1925 | | | | arpa vanzandt@p.cs.uiuc.edu vanzandt@uiuc.ARPA | | csnet vanzandt@uiuc.csnet | | usenet ihnp4!uiucdcs!vanzandt | +=============================================================================+