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Re: 40 columns

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 06:44:14 GMT, Lyrical Nanoha
<LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Guillaume Tello wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> How do I turn the display to 40 columns from inside a Basic program?
>> I tried PRINT CHR$(4);CHR$(27);"4" to simulate Esc 4 but this doesn't
>> work...
>> Help please!
>>
>> Guillaume.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Either ? chr$(17); or ? chr$(21);
>the former leaves the 80-column firmware active for mousetext and such, 
>the latter disables it.

If you use PRINT CHR$(17) to switch to 40 column mode and leave the 80
column firmware active then you can use PRINT CHR$(18) to switch back
to 80 column mode if you want to.

If you use PRINT CHR$(21) then you need to do a PR#3 to enable 80
columns again.

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