Re: Valid SL values

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- Manuel Castelao  wrote:

> I think it would be useful to make a collection of
> XyWrite SL values
> valid for different operating systems

Isn't this much more of an issue for laptop users ?
(The last laptop I owned was so primitive, it sort of
reminds me of those mobile phones that were half the
size of a briefcase.)

Anyway, for OS/2 or eCS, the screen size values --
fullscreen -- are the same as they were for DOS; I
never needed to make any changes. That applies to Xy3
or Xy4. I'm less sure as regards memory buffer
settings, as that would have been set up a long time
ago, and it is surely covered here in the archives. I
never run Xy in a window, and so have nothing to say
to that. And I don't run any exotic code pages or
custom fonts, that might pose additional variables.

Under W2K, I had to have a 50 line screen for a long
time, until the good folks here helped me to
rediscover the procedure for modifying that
program-display-control business in Windows (whatever
the proper nomenclature is . . . ), _after which_ the
 Windows screen and font settings were actually
obeyed. As has been pointed out here before, the PIF
thing is not sufficient; you have to (temporarily)
modify the screen settings for a window, and then
"fullscreen it" back. But now it is a standard 25
lines with a 12 pt. Lucida Console font, and that
seems pretty good to me.

 Jordan