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- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.164454.3543@desire.wright.edu>
- From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:44:54 EST
- References: <1992Aug14.153224.26174@stortek.com> <713823955snx@sugs.tware.com> <1992Aug15.230628.2317@stortek.com>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- 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
-
- Interesting that this should be brought up. It was my impression also
- the the Vio calls only existed for migration purposes. But if you take a peek
- at the REXX library source code you will see that it uses this. The REXX
- source code was in the toolkit example programs I think. Looks to me like IBM
- is still using it:)
-
- John Stewart
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