Re: DOS Text-Full Screen and Win

[urqurw@xxxxxxxx (Russ W. Urquhart)]

> Offline Carl-D. and I have been talking about the quality of DOS text. Just
> got
> a new system with a 17-inch aperture grill monitor and in DOS full screen
> XyDos4 text has a grilled look, even with UltraVision TSR. We guessed that the
> extra inches gave it the look -- UV written in a time of 15-inch or smaller
> screens. I wondered if there was a difference in DOS text on aperture grill
> screens compared to the other. I wondered if the V-card had something to do
> with it. E-mailed ATI and asked if one could tweak their card to produce
> better
> DOS text. They sent me to their WEB for some VESA utilities, then admitted
> nothing could be done. So the choices in 17-inch full screen DOS seem to
> be, go
> back to 15-inch or spend a million bucks and try to find a 17-inch with
> something like 20 dot pitch. Or...
>
> Perhaps try to tweak DOS in the Win98 window so it looks better. 1. How do you
> add to the fonts listed in the font pull-down menu. I downloaded LFL fonts but
> can't get them in there. 2. When I make the window fit the full screen by
> changing the screen length in both win-properties and settings.dfl, I lose
> function in some of my re-mapped keys. If some or all of this has already been
> covered and if someone can remember the rough dates, I'll search the archives

I would think that the fonts have to be in a certain directory, like system32 or something like
that.

But, as far as losing you're mapped keys, are you calling XY4 via an appropriate .PIF file, or are
you
calling it directly from the .EXE? On my NT 3.51 system, that may or may not bear any relationship,

i had had a similar problem with key's losing their mapping until it called the program via a .PIF
file.
Within this .PIF file i'm able to tell the OS that certain key's, that it may use, are to be left as
is.

hope this helps.


Russ

> . Thanks.
>
> Michael Norman