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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To:	Paul AT chocolat DOT obvious DOT fake DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:05:33 +0000
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP, interprocess communication, and DPMI

Paul Shirley <Paul AT no DOT spam DOT please> wrote:

> Windoze seems to only understand some standard screen modes (and
> possibly a few 'unusual' ones), choose one it does not know how to
> handle and it fails to restore the window. I believe its a problem in
> the screen grabber (possibly aided by your SGVA driver). I cannot safely
> use 132*60 textmode because of this little oversight.
> 
> Windoze is a bottomless pit of bugs and unimplemented features...

Hmmm ... I'm not so sure of all of this.
Win 3.1 seems to be very stupid, bu Lose 95 no. Seems it looks in the BIOS data 
area the resolution you are setting. 
If I remmember well I windowized screens of 90x30 from RHIDE. I doubt Lose 95 
have any knowledge about this twisted mode ( ;-) ).
From the other hand seems that simple modes (like VESA graphic modes) must be 
supported by the graphics driver provided by the video board. In some cases the 
implementation of the card manufacturer is incomplet and the faulty code isn't 
in Lose.

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