From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: fprintf() and using under graphic modes
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:34:39 GMT
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 16:34:39 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991125100843 DOT 11831N-100000 AT is...
>
> On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
> > In multiples of 8x16 cells.
>
> No, in multiples of the character cell used by the current video mode.
> 8x16 is only true for some of them.

Including the graphic mode that Chaos was using. You

> also mentioned about checking no of columns and rows in my
> specific mode (ScreenCols() and ScreenRows() functions),
> 640x480x256c - 0x101 in my case. It turned out that there is
> 80 columns and 30 rows.

I was assuming no "set font" BIOS calls that would make the
current video mode's BIOS font anything but the stock 8x16
terminal font. More information on this call is available in
Ralf Brown's interrupt list.
http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm


Damian Yerrick