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- From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
- Subject: Re: Bug in drawing windowed VDM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.140212.3358@nlm.nih.gov>
- Organization: National Library of Medicine
- References: <BAB.92Dec17083108@se39.wg2.waii.com> <1992Dec17.223747.4215@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:02:12 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Dec17.223747.4215@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <BAB.92Dec17083108@se39.wg2.waii.com> bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
- >>Has anyone else seen this bug?
- >>When I open anything in a maximum sized DOS window, in 800x600x256
- >>mode, the contents of the window are shifted over about 1/4" from the
- >>right side of the window. This results in the left 1/4" of the
- >>contents being clipped, and 1/4" of whatever is beneath the window
- >>peaking through on the right. I can get the window to redraw itself by
- >>resizing it to a smaller size and then back to full size.
- >>This only happens about 50% of the time, but it's getting annoying. It
- >>only appeared after I installed the service pack.
- >>BTW, the video card is a Diamond Speedstar (the basic Tseng 4000 based
- >>one).
- >
- >Yes, known bug.
- >
- >Workarounds:
- >
- >(1) Maximize the window, then reposition it.
- >
- >(2) Set things up so that the command MODE CO80,25 is run as you open
- >an OS/2 window. You can do so by setting up a CMD file, for example,
- >or by using the /K parameter when invoking CMD.EXE.
- >
- >--
-
- I know about (2) and use the suggestion in the FAQ for OS/2 windows, but how
- is this relevent to problems with a DOS Window? (just asking)
- I really wish you could do the 'scroll buffer' trick with Dos Windowed sessions
- but I guess you can't?
-
- --Don Lindbergh
- dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
-