On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:32:35 +0100 (BST), Bart Oldeman wrote: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Larry Alkoff wrote: > >> When I ran the program in dosemu the screen is all scrambled >> and only occupies the top 1/3 of the screen although it's full from side to side. > >> I've searched dejanews with the search string "dosemu screen". >> One person says some people use nnansi.com under X windows but I'm not in X >> and I'm not sure that I use ansi in normal dos. > >Framebuffer and no X is a problem - your console is usually not 80x25 >which is what many DOS apps expect. > >I don't think you want to go through the trouble to get suid-root >console working to get DOSEMU to switch to the normal vga text mode. > >Try > >stty cols 80 rows 25 > >before starting dosemu. > >Maybe stty cols 80 rows 43 works too. It's usually a number of columns >different from 80 that is not liked by DOS applications. > >Bart >
Thanks Bart for the stty advice. That's a nice trick and worked to unscramble the screen. The screen is on 1/2 the height and 2/3 the width but that's a problem I can live with if I can't find a solution. Thanks very much for your prompt help. Larry Alkoff Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
