DELAYED THANKS
 
 Jasen Betts wrote to Phil Marlowe
 re: BIG VIDEO FONTS
 
 Hello Jasen,
 
 I did not get a chance until recently to check out
 the LORES code you sent quite a while back owing
 to an illness in the family that occupied almost
 all of my time. I'm still in hectic catch-up mode
 on most things here, so apologies.
 
 But I've been playing around with it a bit during
 the last few days on whatever I happen to have
 handy...  text editors, that is.
 
 This is what it's been tried on so far:
 
 Works and looks great at the dos prompt. Would be
 a great help, I think, if I can get it to work in
 an app.
 
 However, it didn't work at all on the MS-DOS Edit
 editor [MS-DOS v.6.22 I think]. The screen came
 up with regular sized fonts.
 
 On NE editor, a small text editor similar to but
 more elaborate than the MS-DOS Edit editor, it
 'almost' worked... initially the screen came up
 expnded, but then died. Don't know what exactly is
 happening here... why it at first activated 40 x
 12 and then why 40 x 12 cut out. However, no
 deleterious after-effects that I noticed. Would
 the problem be the window/frame type display?
 
 I got the same type of result with File Maven,
 a file manager that has a List-like reader [or it
 might very well be Buerg's actual List]. At any
 rate it didn't work... or worked only for a
 fraction of a second before dying -- like it did
 with the NE editor experiment.
 
 Haven't tried it on List proper yet. Haven't been
 able to locate my copy. Should it be a specific
 version of List BTW?
 
 I am not sure if it works with the TED editor that
 you reccommended, as my copy [which was on a 3.5
 floppy, not touched in years] had disintegrated,
 and a quick search on the inet turned up nothing
 -- it seemes to have vanished from the cyber
 world. Will check for it again.
 
 Finally, I also intended to send you a BIG [40 x 12]
 thank you, but that didn't work out either. In fact
 after trying various things I realized that's not
 really possible. I tried print-to-file, but the
 text of course was saved/stored regular sized. But
 then, even if that had worked, it probably
 wouldn't have survived FIDO anyway. So envision 
 my regular sized thanks as being 40 x 12. [g]
 
 Will keep experimenting.
 
> Phil Marlowe wrote to Charles Angelich
 
PM> For a moment there I thought you were saying
PM> that you could have enlarged video fonts (like
PM> True-Type) under DOS. That would be =real= handy
PM> for my low-vision group, and would allow them to
 
JB> you can stick the VGA card into a lowres mode
> (like 40x12) but many dos programs will refuse to
> run with that resolution or work incorrectly.
 
> however list (text file reader by V.Buerg) and
> ted (simple editor by pcmag) both work fine
> (except the help screens don't display correctly)
> The dos command-line works, but again help doesn't
 
> if you need a tool to activate 40x12 I can
> probably cook someything up out of a few dozen
> carefuilly selected bytes.
 
> (52 bytes, needs vga, tested in colour, should
> work in mono) took about half an hour to knock
> together.
 
> here it is encoded in an executable form, just
> cut it out and save it into an empty text file
> called lores.com (or similar)
 

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