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- From: nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad)
- Subject: Re: Font Sizes in OS/2 Window.
- In-Reply-To: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:30:24 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:23:08 GMT
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- >One of the most frustrating aspect of the curent font system is the
- >direct relationship between the font size and the window size.
- >I would like for instance to be able to open a window with fontsize
- >say 14x8 which would have say 100 columns and 45 lines. I know I can
- >specify the line numbers but I can't change the number of columns !
- >This is unfortunate espacially when I am running Emacs ! Given the
- >font size I should be able to have two 43x80 windowns side by side !
- >Any chance this may happen with an 8415/A adapter ? (actually running
- >ATI ultra ...)
-
- On the other hand, 8514/A, XGA, and several SuperVGA adapters (along
- with IBM's 16-bit VGA chipset) support 132 columns, and you should be
- able to get the 132 columns in windows, if I recall correctly, when
- using any of these adapters.
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-
- Well, I may be missing something here.
-
- I am running GA + CSD. No 2.01 stuff.
-
- I issued the command `mode co132 43' from within an os2 windows and
- got as reply:
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- SYS1633: the mode parameter co132 is not correct.
-
-
- Furthermore the help file reveals that the co132 mode is supported by
- XGA only.
-
- naji.
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