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- From: eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg)
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com>
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- References: <713823955snx@sugs.tware.com> <1992Aug15.230628.2317@stortek.com> <1992Aug16.201203.4985@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:20:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.201203.4985@gw.wmich.edu> x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug15.230628.2317@stortek.com>, eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg) writes:
- >> In article <713823955snx@sugs.tware.com> landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Aug14.153224.26174@stortek.com> eldenbrg@stortek.com writes:
- >>> >
- >>> > I have been through the manuals and I cannot figure out how to get
- >>> > the number of lines and the number of columns defined for the screen
- >>> > in a non-pm program.
- >>> >
- >>>Use the VioGetMode() call.
- >>
- >> I beleive this is an OS/2 1.x call and is only supported for migration.
- >> There is no referance to this or any other Vio call in the IBM Technical
- >> Doc.
- >>
- >> Thanks anyway Hale, see you in a couple weeks...
- >>
- >> Still seeking info.
- >>
- >> Dave
- >
- >All the {Vio,Kbd,Mou} calls are indeed 16-bit calls left over from OS/2 1.x.
- >Try getting a copy of `Advanced OS/2 Programming' by Ray Duncan for a
- >discussion of Vio calls.
- >
- >Hope this helps,
- >
- >/Doug
-
- So, are you saying there is no way to get this info using an OS/2 2.0
- call? Is this IBM's way of telling us that the command line is
- dead and all new systems should be designed for PM? There are a lot of
- applications that don't really need that kind of a user interface.
-
- Dave
-