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- From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
- Subject: Re: Two cool bugs!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.210835.17251@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- References: <1992Aug10.180807.13902@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug12.171952.14638@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:08:35 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- In article <1992Aug12.171952.14638@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.180807.13902@unixg.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
- >>Open the settings for your OS/2 full-screen session. Change it to DOS full-
- >>screen and change video_switch_notification from the default. Exit. Change
- >>the session back to full-screen OS/2. Exit and start up the full-screen
- >>session. Type 'set'<return>.
- >>
- >>The only values that get returned are the DOS settings that were changed. You
- >>have no path, no environment variables, nothing.
- >
- >That's right. DOS sessions don't get their environment variables from
- >CONFIG.SYS. Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root of your boot
- >partition. This will execute each time a DOS session starts.
-
- Hi Dave. I don't know if I made myself clear enough, so just to be sure:
-
- 1) Open the settings for an OS/2 full-screen session.
- 2) Change the session to full-screen DOS.
- 3) Change a DOS setting.
- 4) Change the session back to OS/2 full-screen
- 5) Run the OS/2 full-screen.
- 6) No settings for the OS/2 full-screen session except the DOS settings that
- were changed.
- 7) Open the settings for the OS/2 full-screen session.
- 8) Change it to a DOS full-screen session.
- 9) Change the settings back to the defaults.
- 10) Change the session back to OS/2 full-screen.
- 11) All the environment variables in config.sys are restored.
-
- This should not happen (should it?). The environment variables I set for a
- DOS session for one icon (in this case OS/2 full-screen) should not affect
- (let aloe cause to be lost!) the variables set in config.sys for the OS/2
- session for that icon, should they?
-
- >>Alos, I am using a Graphics Ultra and running everything using the 8514/a
- >>drivers. I am finding that Windows messes up my DOS sessions, in that I cannot
- >>see what I type, but that the programs I start run anyway, and my keystrokes
- >>seem to be registering. However, all I see is a blue C:\> prompt and nothing
- >>else. I have set video_xga_8514a_iotrap to on and video_switch_notification
- >>to on, but the problem persists. Any ideas anyone?
- >
- >No real idea, but have you set "SVGA OFF"? Look for the svgadata.pmi
- >file (DIR svgadata.pmi /s) and delete it if you find it. Next, check
- >your config.sys. Be sure youve a reference to vsvga.sys and NOT to
- >vvga.sys.
- >
- >These should be set for all 8514/a sessions, whether there is a
- >problem or not.
-
- I think I do just have VVGA.SYS in my config.sys. I'll change it and see
- what happens.
- --
- Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca
-
- May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
- -- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.
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