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- Mailprocessor for Fidonet & Usenet
- Get Video Mode program
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- (c) Copyright 1993,1994,1995 WaterLine Software Development
- All Rights Reserved
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- The small program getvideo.exe finds the select code for the
- currently selected video mode. You can then set the resulting number
- in the VIDEO environment variable, so WaterGate will switch to that
- video mode when you start it.
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- This way, you can let wtrgate.exe and wtrutil.exe use more screen
- lines for the logfile. I am using 30 lines at this moment, which
- gives me 5 more lines in the logfile, but you could use 43 lines
- as well.
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- To find the video mode selection code, you have to set your video
- card so it uses that video mode. Most video cards come with a
- support diskette that holds a program that you can use to select
- an other video mode.
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- After you have run that program, you run getvideo.exe to find the
- selection code. You write it down.
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- Now you have to make sure that the VIDEO environment variable is
- set when you start wtrgate.exe or wtrutil.exe. You can do it in
- your autoexec.bat file or in a batchfile that start wtrgate.exe,
- for example. You have to add a line like this:
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- SET VIDEO=3
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- Where 3 is the video mode selection code. You can try some of the
- numbers yourself. If you have a VGA card, you can set it to 7,
- which is the standard code for monochrome video mode.
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- The WaterGate programs always restore the old video mode when you
- exit the program.
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- Good luck and have fun,
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- Ramon
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