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Re: DosBox-x 43x132

I see, even though the DIR shows no textutil.zip, if I run UNZIP Z:\TEXTUTIL.ZIP, it somehow works and gives me the .COM file I needed.

So, now I've got 132x43. Wonderful! Thank you so much.

Would you be kind enough to tell me how to get a bright white background? The best I can get is a medium dark gray for the background, though running COLOR inside Xy (in DOSBox-x) shows me many bright white foregrounds, so I know the color (which is number 15, I believe) is available.

Regards,
Harry


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:39 AM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harry,

How about download from here instead:


Extract the files and run DOSBox-X as usual. Once DOSBox-X is running, mount the local directory (e.g. MOUNT C X:\) and go to that directory. Then type "UNZIP Z:\TEXTUTIL.ZIP" inside DOSBox-X. Hope this helps.

Wengier


On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 01:34:32 a.m. EDT, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi, Wengier. This seems to be the answer, but I don't know how to get it. If I click on the link to dosbox-x-update.zip, I get "failed-insufficient permissions." I tried logging into Github (a site I should understand but totally don't) and I was able to download several things but nothing that unzipped to show textutil.

Could I ask you to tell me the exact steps of how to get textutil.zip onto my system? My XyWrite directory is aliased to X:\ and that's where dosbox-x stuff lives.

P.S. I see something was put up on Github by you 7 hours ago, but I can't find anyway to download it (if it is indeed the right file to download).

Many thanks,
Harry

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Wengier W <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Harry,

I think it is a pretty good request. Thus, I have decided to update the DOSBox-X binary so that in its Z drive you will find a zip package named TEXTUTIL.ZIP which contains various text utilities such as 132X25.COM, 132X43.COM, 132X50.COM etc. Unzip the package using the built-in UNZIP.EXE tool to a mounted directory, and then run 132X43.COM which will switch the DOSBox-X text screen to 43 rows by 132 columns. You can download the latest DOSBox-X binary package from:


Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Wengier

On Monday, October 26, 2020, 03:15:32 p.m. EDT, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Does anyone (Ed M.? Wengier?) know how to set DosBox-x to 43 rows by 132 columns. I have pursued this on GitHub and the Wiki, but run into dead ends. For example, there are references to .cpp files, but I don't think I have those. If I found them, I wouldn't know how to use them (autoexec.bat? new lines in the .conf file?)

In the .conf file, I set 
windowresolution = 1920x1080
but that did not help with Xy's d sw=132.

There is a reference to 
but that gives a 404 error

I also see a "tw" setting but I don't know where it would go or what to do with it.

Ideally, as with vDOS-Plus, one would put into the .conf file lines like:
columns=132
rows=43