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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Large fonts problem with Win-OS/2 and ET4000 1024x768x256
- Keywords: ET4000, large fonts & captions, menus take to much space
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.003857.23848@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:38:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.223505.29441@ugle.unit.no>
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- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec12.223505.29441@ugle.unit.no> sveinare@idt.unit.no writes:
- >Anyone (ET4000) remember back in the Windows age, when you
- >had two sets of display drivers for the ET4000 in each resoltuion,
- >one giving you large fonts, icons, caption, etc, and the other one
- >giving you small. (for instance vga478.drv vs. vga478s.drv)
- >Using OS/2 2.0 with the SP and the ET4000 drivers for 1024x768x256,
- >I now get Windows Seamless in the terrible "Large fonts format".
- >Using some programs, the Caption, Menu, and Buttons TAKE UP FAR
- >TO MUCH SPACE.
- >Is there some way I can get the "Small Format" I had when using
- >pure Windows (using vga478s.drv, which I also use when running
- >Win-OS2 fullscreen), when running Windows applications seamless??
- >What about you other users of OS/2 (and Win-OS2). Are you happy
- >with large fonts, captions, icons, etc. OR HAVE YOU FOUND ANY
- >SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM??
-
- Both sets of drivers (now generic) are available in the tri32new.exe
- package, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory
- /pub/uploads (although they will be moved).
-
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