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echo: os2prog
to: Tonny Bjoern
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1995-06-01 10:49:12
subject: Detecting if fullscreen

TB>
  >                          You see, I'm making a program (DOS) that loads
  > own designed fonts (for NU like screens), but when running the program in
  > a windowed-dos-session the emulation f.... up my font.
TB>

  Correct.  This is true of both VDMs in OS/2 and DOS boxes in Windows,
  and is an artifact of the VGA hardware.  You cannot reprogram the
  text-mode hardware fonts and expect that to show up in graphics mode.

  Live with it.

TB>
  > Is it possible to detect if a dos-program is running fullscreen or windowed
  > If possible, I would like to see some code for this in assembler or pascal.
TB>

  DEBUG C:\OS2\MDOS\ISWINDOW.COM

  > JdeBP <
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