Hello Archie!

*** 25.10.03 at 23:40, Archie Swan wrote to Martin Foster:

 AS> You wrote on 25.10.03 about "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

 AS> [hack]
 AS>>> Here's another.  Remember, some time ago, I mentioned "bad
 AS>>> graphics" - i.e. mixture of strange characters when/where the
 AS>>> various borders are on the main screens.  ?

 MF>> Yes, I remember that very well.

 AS>>> Still happening on the clean DOS box - did you ever get that one
 AS>>> Martin ?

 MF>> I'm afraid I can't confirm that under MS-DOS, sorry chieft.
 MF>> "Graphics" are clean as a whistle here under MS-DOS.

 MF>> JOOI, the only stuff I have loaded in addition to a bog-standard
 MF>> MS-DOS install is MSCDEX, DOSKEY and HIT-IDE.SYS (CD-ROM driver).
 MF>> Everything that *will* load high *is* loaded high and I've
 MF>> changed the standard FILES=20 to FILES=50 and I have NOEMS on the
 MF>> EMM386.EXE line.

 AS> Hmmmph!  My test box hasn't got the CD bits or that DOSKEY
 AS> gubbins, so is technically "cleaner".  Like you, I'm using the
 AS> NOEMS and the FILES statement is about the same.

I've just installed DR-DOS 7.03 and upon firing up OpenXP I'm confronted  
with a screenful of "garbage".

 AS> Which sorta strongly implies that it's a DR-DOS problem :(

Hmmmmm, not necessarily.
It could be that OpenXP doesn't support DR-DOS, IYSWIM ?

Regards,
Martin

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