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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: WIN-OS2: installing fonts for WPW safe?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.174105.12587@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 17:41:05 GMT
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- In article <ignacij.716141022@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
- >I am running WordPerfect for Windows in WINOS2. It is working fine, but the
- >VGA resulution is too poor. I would like to install drivers for at
- >least 800x600. There are 2 problems:
- >1. OS/2 Help warns agains installing WINOS2 drivers not included with OS/2,
-
- Really? I don't remember seeing this. Oh well. My 800x600x256
- desktop seems to work fine.
-
- >2. The drivers I know have no update instructions. For sure,
- >the WINOS2 desktop does not provide any automated any procedure.
- >Summarizing, do third-party SVGA drivers work reliably in WINOS2, and how
- >to install them?
-
- Some work and some don't. ATI has some new drivers out. They are
- available where ATI drivers are normally found. I thought they were
- at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but I couldn't locate them in teh obvious places.
-
- If you must, you can download them from the ATI BBS.
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- |) David Charlap "LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket,
- /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
- ((|,) patience."
- ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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