Re: Full-screen XyWrite 3+

[Wolfgang Bechstein bechstein@xxxxxxxx]

"User" aka Alan Kerr wrote:

> Perhaps this is a clue: Microsoft's gratuitous opening screen -- the
> one that announces the version you're running and keeps you waiting
> while bloatware loads -- that runs in a small window in the center of
> the screen, surround by black. The desktop and programs of recent
> vintage come up full screen, as expected.

Let me guess: this is on a laptop or possibly a desktop computer with a
flat TFT screen, right? If so, the problem you are having has nothing to
do with XyWrite or even the DOS settings of Windows per se. It is a
_hardware_ thing, caused by the fact that your screen (probably a TFT
screen with a resolution of 1024x768 or higher) unlike CRT monitors is
hardwired for the higher resolution, causing the 640x480 of regular DOS
to take up only a portion of the screen, whereas the Windows desktop and
Windows programs use the full 1024x768 or whatever resolution. The way
around this is again _in hardware_. Most laptops have a hotkey
combination that lets you toggle DOS into a (simulated) full-screen mode.
On my Compaq, this is Fn-T where Fn is the special function key at the
bottom left of the keyboard. Look in your computer manual, or ask the
manufacturer how to get an edge-to-edge DOS screen. Some TFT
monitor/video card combinations are already set up that way, but some
aren't. I think that's what you're up against, but of course I could be
wrong.

Wolfgang Bechstein
bechstein@xxxxxxxx