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WaterGate
Mailprocessor for Fidonet & Usenet
Get Video Mode program
(c) Copyright 1993,1994,1995 WaterLine Software Development
All Rights Reserved
The small program getvideo.exe finds the select code for the
currently selected video mode. You can then set the resulting number
in the VIDEO environment variable, so WaterGate will switch to that
video mode when you start it.
This way, you can let wtrgate.exe and wtrutil.exe use more screen
lines for the logfile. I am using 30 lines at this moment, which
gives me 5 more lines in the logfile, but you could use 43 lines
as well.
To find the video mode selection code, you have to set your video
card so it uses that video mode. Most video cards come with a
support diskette that holds a program that you can use to select
an other video mode.
After you have run that program, you run getvideo.exe to find the
selection code. You write it down.
Now you have to make sure that the VIDEO environment variable is
set when you start wtrgate.exe or wtrutil.exe. You can do it in
your autoexec.bat file or in a batchfile that start wtrgate.exe,
for example. You have to add a line like this:
SET VIDEO=3
Where 3 is the video mode selection code. You can try some of the
numbers yourself. If you have a VGA card, you can set it to 7,
which is the standard code for monochrome video mode.
The WaterGate programs always restore the old video mode when you
exit the program.
Good luck and have fun,
Ramon