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   From: G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , micky   
    writes:   
   >In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:05:15   
   >+0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"  wrote:   
   []   
   >>>>Does this remember if you select true character mode, with Alt-Enter?   
   >   
   >Sorry.  I misread your question and answered as if you had asked about   
   >Alt-Space.    I also don't know the term  true character mode.   
      
   Not surprising, as I made it up; I'm not sure what the "official" name   
   for that mode is, if there is one. I called it that because, on some   
   systems at least, I think it actually changes the mode of the graphics   
   hardware, to an 80 by 25 character mode that's there from days long ago.   
   []   
   >Right.  It's not a box, but the full screen.   In my XP system, however,   
   >the characters were a bit fuzzy and maybe wider, giving less on the   
      
   Unless it's a laptop, that's probably your monitor: some modern   
   (especially non-CRT) monitors won't even display this old mode - the   
   ones that do aren't optimised for it. (Pressing the auto-adjust button -   
   or manually tweaking the monitor - might make it less fuzzy. But then   
   you'd have to redo that when you got back into graphics mode, so don't   
   bother.)   
   []   
   >Last Sunday my XP system failed.  I spent a lot of Monday trying to   
   >repair it (another thread I hope to start) and Monday night  I moved to   
   >my only spare computer that had a HDD and an OS.  A friend who upgraded   
   >his office gave me a Dell Vista computer,   
   >   
   >and now in Vista when I try to do Alt-Enter, I get  "This system does   
   >not support fullscreen mode".   This is with Start | run | cmd or a   
   >shortcut that calls tcc/le.  (I have no bat files except autoexec.bat   
   >which doesn't pause in the middle, and whose box disappears right away)   
      
   I _think_ that's how .bat files have run in the Windows environment   
   since '95 - when they've finished, their command window closes. But if   
   you run them from an already-opened command prompt, e. g. by typing   
      
   \autoexec   
      
   at the command prompt, they _won't_ disappear when they finish (or   
   rather the command window won't).   
   []   
   >If only we could have a format with the best of all 3 possible formats!   
   >(JK, I'm pretty much satisfied, at least if it remembers the width in   
   >the next windows session.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   After a typical day at the BBC you want something to take your mind off work,   
   although in the end, decent people being eaten alive by heartless monsters   
   running amok proved no distraction. - Eddie Mair, RT 2015/7/4-10   
      
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