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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR PICK_REZ.PRG
-
- I have a "boot" disk with my favorite ramdisk, screen color, and icon
- labels set the way I want them. Since I usually use medium resolution,
- that's the way it's set to boot up.
-
- All is fine and dandy until I need to run in low resolution. If I then
- boot with the same disk and switch to low resolution using the "Options"
- menu, I lose my screen color and icon labels.
-
- So I wrote this little program to be run from an AUTO folder that asks
- me what resolution I want and sets it accordingly, as described below.
-
- The screen resolution, color, icon labels and positions, and initial
- window dimensions are all maintained in the DESKTOP.INF file. This
- program works by maintaining two DESKTOP.INF files on the boot disk:
- one for medium resolution and one for low resolution. It handles the
- setting of the resolution by renaming the files before GEM initializes,
- so GEM finds the one in the resolution I want to use. A side benefit
- is that because of the way the file names are swapped, it "remembers"
- which resolution I was in last time I used the color monitor.
-
- To use this method:
-
- 1) Put PICK_REZ.PRG in an AUTO folder.
-
- 2) Set low resolution with the "Options" menu. Install your icons, set
- the screen colors, etc. -- set up the screen the way you want it to look
- look when you boot in low resolution. Save your preferences. Now RENAME
- the DESKTOP.INF file to DESKTOP.LOW.
-
- 3) Set medium resolution. Configure the screen the way you want it to
- look when you boot in medium resolution and save your preferences. Do
- NOT rename this DESKTOP.INF file!
-
- 4) At this point, you'll have two "DESKTOP.INF" files on your disk: one
- of them named DESKTOP.INF, and one named DESKTOP.LOW.
-
- 5) Cold-start your computer. You should get a message stating that
- you're in medium resolution and asking if you want to switch to low.
- If you answer yes, the current DESKTOP.INF file is renamed DESKTOP.MED
- and DESKTOP.LOW is renamed to DESKTOP.INF, so when GEM initializes, it
- finds a DESKTOP.INF file calling for low resolution! And visa versa for
- switching the other way.
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- This program is 100% public domain -- use and abuse as you please. The
- source code (in Megamax C) is provided if you want to fiddle with it.
-
-
- Tim Ekdom
- 72575,1473
- April, 1987
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