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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Bug in drawing windowed VDM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.185157.14836@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:51:57 GMT
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- References: <BAB.92Dec17083108@se39.wg2.waii.com> <1992Dec17.223747.4215@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.140212.3358@nlm.nih.gov>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1992Dec18.140212.3358@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
- >>>Has anyone else seen this bug?
- >>>When I open anything in a maximum sized DOS window, in 800x600x256
- >>>mode, the contents of the window are shifted over about 1/4" from the
- >>>right side of the window. This results in the left 1/4" of the
- >>>contents being clipped, and 1/4" of whatever is beneath the window
- >>>peaking through on the right. I can get the window to redraw itself by
- >>>resizing it to a smaller size and then back to full size.
- >>>This only happens about 50% of the time, but it's getting annoying. It
- >>>only appeared after I installed the service pack.
- >>>BTW, the video card is a Diamond Speedstar (the basic Tseng 4000 based
- >>>one).
- >>Yes, known bug.
- >>Workarounds:
- >>(1) Maximize the window, then reposition it.
- >>(2) Set things up so that the command MODE CO80,25 is run as you open
- >>an OS/2 window. You can do so by setting up a CMD file, for example,
- >>or by using the /K parameter when invoking CMD.EXE.
- >I know about (2) and use the suggestion in the FAQ for OS/2 windows, but how
- >is this relevent to problems with a DOS Window? (just asking)
- >I really wish you could do the 'scroll buffer' trick with Dos Windowed sessions
- >but I guess you can't?
-
- COMMAND.COM doesn't understand more than 60 lines, I believe (and, at
- that, with some difficulty). However, the specific remedy (using MODE
- CO80,25) does apply to DOS windows for the specific bug mentioned.
-
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