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Application Note #5

24 vs. 25 lines

December 12th, 2001

The PC Weasel PCI fully emulates a PC screen, which means 25 lines of output (or more, as in the case of 43- and 50-line VGA modes).

However, some DOS-based terminal emulators (Procomm, Procomm Plus, Telix, etc.), place a status line on the 25th line of the DOS display. In this case, output will not look correct, with the host's command line prompts, when on the last line of the display, overwriting (or being overwritten by) the status line, or not appearing at all.

Similarly, the PC Weasel will not correctly output to a 24 line VT-100 style terminal because the VT-100 is a ling short compared to the PC display. You must ensure that the terminal emulator you are using is able to actually display at least as many lines as the Weasel is emulating. You can determine at any time the text mode (geometry) by examining the Stuff menu (<attn character>s).

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