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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 18:54:43 EDT
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- From: Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
- Subject: RE: NB 4.0 video
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- >From: Tom Dolan <Dolan@ACUVAX.ACU.EDU>
-
- >I loaded NB 4.0 as instructed - everything seemed to go smooth - I loaded
- >Orbis and Lingua also from the disk provided. When I enter NB at the Dos
- >prompt the screen goes to the correct default colors (Gold on Purple) but
- >the characters are unreadable - There are just a bunch of colored dots on
- >a purple background. I can type QUIT<Enter> and get out of the program but
- >I can't read anything I type. This is very frustrating to a non-technical
-
- Type "nb /b" at the command line, instead of simply "nb"; this
- forces the video routines to use the BIOS (he said impressively,
- parroting the instructions given to me by Paul Bodin a month
- ago. If Paul hadn't told me what to do I'd still be at
- square one. Why this isn't even in the preliminary docs [sic]
- is beyond me.
-
- Robert Braham
- Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
- Bitnet: RMB@cunyvms1.bitnet
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