Re: XP--screen length--startup.int

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Robert--

Let's see if I can answer this correctly.
> You need to say what you _want_ to see. How many lines, for example.

The monitor is 17" diag.
I want 47 lines, which fills the screen. I can achieve this at the
opening of each session by choosing screen length 50 in
advanced/preferences, etc. Works fine, cursor is where it belongs, font
is tolerable so far, text is a bit jiggly during scroll but livable so
far. I want to be able to achieve this automatically each time I start a
Xy session. I don't want to have to keep going through the menus.
SL=50 is in my settings.dfl. I assume it got there through my using
menus. It is not in settings on the old computer.
> You're talking about a DOS box on the Desktop, or full screen DOS?

Hmmm. Looks as though I'm still confounded by the terminology.
All I can tell you is that I use start/run to open Xy. I don't use the
shortcut on the desktop. I don't go to the C: prompt in Dos. Is this
enough info for you to tell me which I'm doing?
> These are two
> entirely different problems, with different solutions. What you're describing
> sounds like full screen. If so, then you need to turn on screen expansion
> (maybe called "expand display", something like that), either in the BIOS
> (permanent solution) or maybe using a Function key + Fkey toggle (temporary for
> duration of the XP session) or possibly (permanent) in the Advanced Settings of
> Control Panel ==> Display (it depends entirely on the display adapter -- every
> Dell I've bought in last 4-5 years came with expansion turned off by default --
> possibly because, at certain resolutions, like 1024x768, it may look terrible
> on a certain monitor, whereas at 1400x1050 it looks great -- you gotta play
> with those resolution settings to see what looks good once you get expansion
> turned _on_).
I'm going to hold off responding to the paragraph above until I know
whether I'm using a Dos box or full screen DOS.
> How did you install XyWrite? If you just copied the install from another
> machine, was it also on C:\XY4? Because if it wasn't, then a lot of things
> need adjustment, and that may account for those bizarre error msgs...

Copied from C: to C:.

Thanks for your help

Judith
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> Robert Holmgren
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