Re: Re Tame 5.7 etc

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Breeze wrote:
So far it only exhibits one strange piece of
behaviour. In order to get, say, 28 lines in Tame I have to set 3 more
in XYWrite (ie d sl=31). This seems to happen generally, so that to get
43 lines I need to set 46, etc. I have no explanation for this, nor can
I find anything within the configuration that might be responsible.

This is a standard Xy "feature," which has been commented on here
several times. One must allow for the command, prompt, and ruler
lines (as Robert noted on 6/2/03; see also his post on
12/27/2003, in which he explains that the number of lines is
limited by BIOS constrants). From tests I have been running on
the office XP boxes, it looks as if when you run windowed mode,
XP or Xy deducts a further two lines for the title bar: If I set
SL (in properties and in Xy defaults) to 43 lines, 38 are all
that display on the part of the screen where one's data file is
typed and displayed.

Or possibly this is simply a function of that screen BIOS?

N.B. When testing all this I use an easily created file:
Command Ne sltest.txt
Command
VA SL 
C1 
Follow it with a CR, then define that line and copy it till you
have as many as you think your max. sL is likely to be. SAve it,
then CAll it whenever you want to test screen lengths. You can
immediately see how many are displaying.

Now that's all native Xy. How Tame may affect it, I have no idea.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx