From: LiveSucks@hotmail.com   
      
   (Okay. I'm back on my own machine.   
    Ulrich didn't want me to post from his account and   
    canceled the previous message.  So I hereby post   
    again)   
      
   I wrote:   
      
   > Is it possible to detect the amount of characters which fit   
   > into one line of the screen without using the CRT-unit   
      
   Thanks to all repliers. Your postings were a great help:   
      
   There were three solutions offered to the "problem":   
      
   1) Reading from the BIOS data area via "memw[$40:$4a];"   
      only in real-mode, on machines where "BIOSsing" is not   
      neglected.   
   2) Assembler, function 0F ad interrupt 10, delivers   
      result in AH (AH:=$0F; Int $10; result in AH), but only   
      in real-mode.   
   3) fastwrite-unit of Femme Verbeek   
      
   Either solution works good for my purpose of creating a   
   real-DOS-application.   
   As I also need to detect the video-mode and meanwhile   
   learned how to do this via interrupt 10 in assembler, I   
   tend to "solution 2".   
      
   Once more: Many thanks.   
      
   Sincerely   
      
   Sam   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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