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- Subject: Re: Where has my FONTS option gone in the DOS APPLICATIONS window????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.230721.14840@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- Date: 3 Jan 93 23:07:20 -0500
- References: <1hvsrcINNffl@zikzak.apana.org.au>
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- Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"
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- In article <1hvsrcINNffl@zikzak.apana.org.au>, jamie@zikzak.apana.org.au (Jamie Scuglia) writes:
- > When runnig a DOS application under WINDOWS 3.1, clicking the top left
- > corner of the window it is running in will reveal a menu like this:
- >
- > RESTORE
- > MOVE
- > .....etc
- > EDIT
- > SETTINGS
- > FONTS
-
- I'd never noticed this before, since I usually run DOS apps in full screen
- mode (too many problems with comm packages aborting).
-
- >
- > Now, I replaced the graphics display driver supplied with WINDOWS 3.1 with
- > one that came on a disk with my TRIDENT video card. I did this because
- > WINDOWS had no 800x600 resolution drivers for 256 colors (it had only a
- > 16 color one). However, with the new TRIDENT driver, I now find that the
- > "FONTS" menu option in the the above DOS window menu no longer exists! It has
- > been deleted from the options list! This means that I can't change the
- > font size in the DOS application window unless I do either:
- >
-
- I get the feeling you did something wrong. I have a Trident 8900C, using
- the Trident driver 1024x768, 256c, large. I just tried what you described, and
- I get fonts on the menu. In fact, it gives me 10 choices for fonts.
-
- I suggest you dig around in the manual again and also double check your
- Windows Setup. Something probably went wrong with the installation.
-
- The thing I found tedious about the Trident installation is that I could
- not do it directly off of the disk. I had to run their program to unpack
- it onto 3 floppies (I later learned I could have done it to hard disk or
- ram disk just as easy), then run the Windows Setup program to install
- it. It was well worth it, though.
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- | Academic Computing Service | -Mad Hatter |
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