Subj : Bink help WIN-XP w/X7 ver.
To   : Mike Luther
From : Steven Horn
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 01:20 am

Mike Luther (1:117/3001) wrote to All at 17:25 on 12 Jul 2004:

 ML> OK, I've got Bink 260 X7 version for NT able to open on this test
 ML> box with WIN-XP latest and critical packs fixed.  At this point the
 ML> POTS version using the executable that was in the \NT subdirectory
 ML> of the oarchive will run, and will poll via a controller based
 ML> modem, connect with another of my POTS Bink sites on OS/2 and so
 ML> on.  It will also exit to MAX 3.01 and seems to work there. 

 ML> But .. the visual screen for the Bink operation has the header up
 ML> at the top just fine, but a humongous bunch of black space empty
 ML> lines in the log file display screen until you get way down
 ML> hundreds of lines later to the bottom of whatever.  At that point
 ML> all the log display is visible.  In fact, if you Alt X and get out
 ML> of Bink, when it is over, there on the screen will be all those log
 ML> lines which were missing from the visual part of the Bink user
 ML> screen. 

 ML> I'm not a WIN oriented person.  Been OS/2 for years.  What am I
 ML> doing wrong with the BINKLEY.CFG file or the video in the WIN-XP
 ML> box which is causing this issue? 

Mike,

Try right clicking on the program bar, the bar with the program name on the 
left and the three Windows buttons on the right--if you've done that right, 
you'll see c:\windows\system32\ntvdm.exe. Then click on "Properties" and in 
"options" set your viewing screen as "window" and in "layout" set Screen buffer 
size and Window size at width 80 and height 25.

This should work as I used this to clean up a similar problem I had with Irex's 
screen.

Take care,

Steven Horn (stefhorn@yknet.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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