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- From: joew@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Wagner)
- Subject: Re: ProcommPlus for Windows questions...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214306.6919@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Reply-To: Joe Wagner <dcatlas!joew@uunet.uu.net>
- Organization: NHTSA Data Center, Washington, D.C., USA
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <18JAN93.09753594.0044@music.mus.polymtl.ca> <16B5EB543.TAINT017@ysub.ysu.edu> <1jpepj$2jq@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan23.232107.11147@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:43:06 GMT
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- kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines) writes:
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- >In article <1jpepj$2jq@agate.berkeley.edu> alsu@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Su) writes:
- >>(2) Here's an easy one...I want to increase the scrollback buffer size. I
- >>have gone through the Window-Setup-Terminal(Advanced) diaglog box and set
- >>the number of pageto be 50. It informs me that this requires 473K of
- >>memory. (I'm using the VT220 emulation.) This should be no problem (I
- >>think). But I'm still getting noticably less than 50 pages...or even 20
- >>pages worth of scrollback. What am I doing wrong? (I've RTFM but it just
- >>tels me to change the number of pages and all will be well...not.)
-
- >I have this problem too, but it informs me in the bottom status line that
- >"Only 19 of the 99 requested scrollback pages could be allocated". I've got
- >8 megs RAM, I'm not sure why it won't use any more of it. I tried changing
- >the PIF settings but to no avail.
-
- I had this problem and I called Datastorm tech support and they said that
- 19 pages was the limit for now. It apparently is some internal limit because
- I've got 16 megs RAM. Anyway it is really annoying, especially if you're
- trying to save on phone bill charges by scrolling past file listings.
-
- Joe
-
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