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- From: cjr@cs.bham.ac.uk (Chris Ridd)
- Subject: Programming MEMORY.SYS
- Message-ID: <C1ItAG.Ivw@cs.bham.ac.uk>
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- Keywords: FontGDOS, MEMORY.SYS, META.SYS, VDI
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:18:15 GMT
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- I tried doing a v_opnwk() on MEMORY.SYS (btw, what device number
- should it have?), and got some curious values in intout[].
-
- Oddest was the device dimensions in pixels: it was monochrome and took
- ~170K of memory. My "Bitmap Cache" in FontGDOS is 200K, my "Misc
- Cache" is ~30K. Coincidence? The pixel dimensions were the same as for
- META.SYS (85um x 85um).
-
- When I set MEMORY.SYS to device 21, the Printer Selector CPX crashes
- when I click on the name to edit the details (for printers, this
- changes the page size).
-
- An aside: the META.SYS driver reports it only has 9 GDPs, and then it
- lists *10* of them in intout[] (cannot remember the indicies at the
- moment). This appears to be a bug; I haven't checked the old driver
- yet.
-
- I'm getting curiouser by the minute! Does anyone have the GDOS
- programming guide mentioned in the FontGDOS docs?
-
- Cheers!
- --Chris
-
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