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- From: hlh5721@zeus.tamu.edu (JIMI HENDRIX)
- Subject: Re: HELP: DOSSHELL on ZenithTurboSport
- Message-ID: <25JUL199203024519@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Summary: DOSSHELL invisible
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- Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
- References: <1992Jul25.063138.22991@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 08:02:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.063138.22991@cco.caltech.edu>, rpt@ovro.caltech.edu writes...
- >I recently have bought a used ZenithTurboSport 386. The machine works
- >fine (programs, games, graphics), EXCEPT for DOSSHELL. Initiating
- >DOSSHELL in the various text modes results in a blank screen, whereas
- >in graphics mode the screen is filled with mumbo-dumbo characters.
- >Occasionally I have been able to get out of the SHELL by typing ALT-f4
- >hence I believe the invisible DOSSHELL is actually running correctly.
- >
- >A TurboSport comes with a 640x400 CGA (double scan) paper white
- >screen. I am using DOS 5.0.
- >
- >Anybody out there who knows what is going on?
- >
- >Remo Tilanus (rpt@ovro.caltech.edu) Owens Valley Radio Observatory
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- I used to use a supersport 286 cga and had no trouble with dosshell.
- maybe your dos is installed incorrectly....try to reinstall it
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-
- LEE HUDDLESTON,
- Texas A&M University,
- College St. TX
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- "This views expressed are mine and are not necessarily those of
- Texas A&M University, its faculty, staff nor students"
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