From: Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You've misunderstood the meanings of those entry fields in Vista. They set
the _alternate_ screen size, not the primary screen size.
As I said in the post you quoted, the way you set the primary size in Vista
is to add 'AllowDefaultSizeChange=1' to your VISTA.INI file, restart Vista,
go to Options -> Options (Alt+Z) and on the "Misc" tab, specify the desired
primary (default mode) screen size.
Hi Ed,
My apologies for two things. First, I haven't been following the '27x132'
thread very closely because until now I was under the mistaken belief that
Vista would not allow me to enter user-specified values for both the primary
and alternate screen sizes. In other words, I wasn't aware that
'AllowDefaultSizeChange=1' could be added to the VISTA.INI file.
Second, you are correct that when a user-specified screen size is entered in
Vista it actually relates to the alternate screen size and not the primary
screen size. I had tried a user-specified size a while back, but because
Vista would only display 24 lines as the primary screen size I quickly gave
up on it and went back to using Mod-4. Meanwhile, I had forgotten that when
a user-specified size is entered in Vista, the numbers being entered are
actually specifying a secondary size and that the primary size defaults to
24x80.
Now that I know an option can be added to the VISTA.INI file I'm suddenly
very interested in the topic of this thread! So, I updated my INI file and
as you said was delighted to discover that I can now enter user-specified
values for both the primary and secondary screen sizes!
After logging on I confirmed that the Vista window does indeed toggle
between the two screen sizes. The secondary size (which I specified as
43x132) behaves exactly the way I want. However, the primary window (which
is displayed as 43x80) only contains 24 lines. In other words, although
Vista is displaying a window that is 43 lines deep, the bottom half of the
window is empty.
I realize that this has almost certainly been covered in the many (many)
posts I've seen going back and forth about 27x132, and that if I go and look
through them all I'll probably find the solution on how to fix this problem.
I'm guessing I either have to apply one or more APAR's (such as the one
mentioned in this subject line), and/or logon with a particular logmode. And
if it wasn't for the fact that I'm sending this email to you to apologise
for my earlier incorrect statement regarding Vista, I'd be going through all
the earlier posts right now. But as I'm sending you this email anyway, would
you mind just telling me which APAR(s) I need to apply and/or which logmode
I need to use so my primary screen size will be 'filled' with the full 43
lines? ;-)
Many thanks in advance,
Dave Salt
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