Just a guess, but check your bios setup. I had a 286 that defaulted
to 40 character mode when the cmos battery died. Otherwise you
can use the mode command " mode co80 " if you have ega or vga.
Mike
On 26 Jan 00, at 15:10, Bob Williams wrote:
> I have a mitsubishi MP286L which I just loaded up with Pegasus for
> DOS, using DOSPPPD0.5 so that I can connect to POP3 server with PAP.
> It works great. Even with the 8250 UART it'll handle 14400 bps.
>
> I'm happy!
>
> One glitch. Can someone help? The thing boots with a 40 character
> per line font which wraps around terribly on most programs. If I run NC
> or other programs that take control of the screen, it comes to something
> more standard - even after I exit NC. Can someone tell me the command to
> run to make it start up in this nice smaller mode?
>
> Come to think of it - the same thing happens with an old XT I've
> got....I'm probably gonna say, "Oh yea!" after 30 of you tell me the
> answer. But I can't find it myself in my books. So I'll place the
> dunce cap on my head and wait for replies.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Bob in the Philippines
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