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Their command line options are often pretty cryptic, and even if you manage to create a batch file for invoking a certain mode e.g. 132x25 wide mode, the execution of this batch is too awkward and slow for my taste. So I wrote a small driver (only 70 bytes) to access instantly 132x25 mode. Unfortunately 132x25 is no generic mode, executables for invoking wide mode must be written separately for each different video card. U-WIDE10 contains eleven 132x25 drivers for following common video cards: AHEAD, ATI, CIRRUS, EVEREX, GENOA, NCR, OAK, PARADISE, TRIDENT, TSENG and VIDEO7. I found the information about addressing 132x25 mode for different video cards in one of Ralf Brown's interrupt lists. They proved to be correct for the PARADISE card on my current system and for the TRIDENT card on my old machine. I hadn't have an opportunity to test the drivers for other cards. Actually, there a two drivers for each video card, packed together under the name of the corresponding card: 132-????.COM and B132????.COM, where ???? is the name or abbreviation of respective card. Thus 132-TRID.COM is the driver for a TRIDENT card. 132-????.COM drivers just invoke wide mode but B132???.COM's print additionally a colorized pattern to the screen. In case you are unsure which video card you have, run first included Bob Berry's VIDEOID.EXE (nice piece of Freeware ­) and then unpack the respective archive. If you have another video adaptor than listed above or a one of the drivers should fail, run the video setup program for your card and set 132x50 mode manually before experience... Wide Mode in Action §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ DOS built-in commands like DIR, SET, TYPE ect. and lots of command line driven programs like file finders, archivers and virus scanners detect and can handle 132x25 mode. Yet, most menu driven programs will reset the screen to 80x25 when started in wide mode. Exceptions are e.g. Buerg's LIST.COM and 4DOS LIST command, editor QEDIT, multi-commander POCKET and some other less wide spread programs. 132x25 is better readable than the often employed 43/50x25 mode. It can still be embellished with screen fonts and color palettes. This takes us to... UWIDE.COM - Underwear WIDE mode §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Usage: UWIDE [FontName] [Palette 1-40] [R = Reader] [PL = Packing list] [/? /H = Help] UWIDE.COM has 8 built-in screen fonts from the UMFONT14 series to choose from: ANTI, BROD, DECO, ELLA, FAT2, HERB, NEAT and ROMA. For more information about available UMFONTs see UMF-SUPP.LST or run READINS.BAT. Examples for fonts: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Invoke first 132x25 mode, then... UWIDE BROD Ľ - invoke font BROD UWIDE BROD ? Ľ - short info for BROD UWIDE BROD + Ľ - load BROD to memory UWIDE BROD - Ľ - remove BROD from memory The fonts take effect if you are already in normal (80x25) or 132x25 mode. When invoked in normal mode followed by one of the 132-????.COM drivers the font will be reset. Examples for palettes: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Invoke first 132x25 mode, possibly a screen font, then... UWIDE P 4 Ľ - palette 4 UWIDE P 0 Ľ - reset palette This feature has been úborrowedú from archive UPAL10. The archive has additionally a menu driven palette utility and detailed instructions. ÖÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ· º RFP.COM resets video modes, screen fonts, color palettes º º and borders, blink status. RFP ? = Help Info º ÓÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĽ If you have an ANSI driver installed you could assign your 132x25 mode driver and resetter RFP.COM to keys CTRL-F5 and ALT-F5 adding to AUTOEXEC.BAT following lines: ECHO ESC[0;98;"132-????".COM;13p ECHO ESC[0;107;"RFP";13p This makes switching between wide mode (CTRL-F5) and normal text mode (ALT-F5) a piece of cake. Usage for the Reader: §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ UWIDE R [FileName] [1-40] [FontName] where R = Reader, 1-40 = color palettes, FontName = one of above UMFONTs. FileName is mandatory, palette and FontName are optional. Once the Reader is in action its speed can be controlled by keys 1-9, SPACE = pause, ESCape = quit. Invoke first 132x25 mode, then... Examples for the reader: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UWIDE R Ľ - Short help info UWIDE R U-WIDE10.DOC 23 - Read file with palette 23 UWIDE R U-WIDE10.DOC 9 HERB - Read with palette 23 and font HERB This feature is the main part of UNDERWEAR archive SCRAA10 (Speed Controlled Reader for ASCII and ANSI files). It contains two readers and detailed instructions how to use them. UWIDE PL Ľ = Write Packing List to file READOC.BAT READINS.BAT READLIST.BAT §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Included batches require most of U-WIDE10 files in current directory. Where READOC.BAT runs in 80x25 mode, the other two BATs are demos for the Reader in 132x25 mode (defaults to PARADISE card). If you have another video card replace the line ú132-PARA.COMú with the appropriate driver of your video card. Tips for 4DOS users §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Using your 132x32 driver and RFP.COM you could create a 132.BTM for toggling between 132x25 and normal mode: @echo off iff %_columns==80 then 132-????.COM else if %_columns==132 RFP.COM endiff 132.BTM again can be assigned with an alias to key of your choice. Example: ALIAS @@ALT-F5=132.BTM 4DOS' DIR command can take full advantage of 132x25 mode when invoked with parameter /W (=wide). It wraps the file names at column 131, thus allowing DIR displays with over 200 files. This looks much better than respective DIR readings in 80x43/50 mode. Following WD.BTM (=Wide Dir) will show current directory in 132x25 mode if no DirName is given and any directory on the disk when a DirName is entered. Replace 132-????.COM with the name of your respective 132x25 driver. @echo off 132-????.COM iff "%1"=="" then dir /w /v /p else pushd %1\ dir %_cwd /w /v /p popd endiff A respective ALIAS must be written in a long line like this: ALIAS WD `132-????^iff "%1"=="" then dir /w /v /p^else pushd %1\^dir %_cwd /w /v /p^popd^endiff` For example typing simply úWD UTILú will show files of directory UTIL, wherever úUTILú resides on the disk. Both .BTM and ALIAS assume, that the CDPATH is set for all drives, e.g. úSet CDPATH=C:\;D:\;E:\;F:\;ú for drives C-F:. When no DIRname is given WD shows the current directory. Archive U-WIDE10 is meant to be shared and therefore NO Shareware. It is.. 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