From: landen@cvx.eur.nl (Peter van der Landen)
Subject: Re: Where has my FONTS option gone in the DOS APPLICATIONS window????
Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:30:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.230721.14840@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>Subject: Re: Where has my FONTS option gone in the DOS APPLICATIONS window????
>From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
>Date: 3 Jan 93 23:07:20 -0500
>In article <1hvsrcINNffl@zikzak.apana.org.au>, jamie@zikzak.apana.org.au (Jamie Scuglia) writes:
>> When runnig a DOS application under WINDOWS 3.1, clicking the top left 
>> corner of the window it is running in will reveal a menu like this:
>> 
>> RESTORE
>> MOVE
>> .....etc
>> EDIT 
>> SETTINGS
>> FONTS
>
>I'd never noticed this before, since I usually run DOS apps in full screen
>mode (too many problems with comm packages aborting).
>
>> 
>> Now, I replaced the graphics display driver supplied with WINDOWS 3.1 with
>> one that came on a disk with my TRIDENT video card.  I did this because
>> WINDOWS had no 800x600 resolution drivers for 256 colors (it had only a
>> 16 color one).  However, with the new TRIDENT driver, I now find that the
>> "FONTS" menu option in the the above DOS window menu no longer exists!  It has
>> been deleted from the options list!  This means that I can't change the 
>> font size in the DOS application window unless I do either:
>> 
>
>I get the feeling you did something wrong.  I have a Trident 8900C, using
>the Trident driver 1024x768, 256c, large.  I just tried what you described, and
>I get fonts on the menu.  In fact, it gives me 10 choices for fonts.
>
>I suggest you dig around in the manual again and also double check your
>Windows Setup.  Something probably went wrong with the installation.
>
>The thing I found tedious about the Trident installation is that I could
>not do it directly off of the disk.  I had to run their program to unpack
>it onto 3 floppies (I later learned I could have done it to hard disk or
>ram disk just as easy), then run the Windows Setup program to install
>it.  It was well worth it, though.
>
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I had the same problem with a Chips & Technologies (Olivetti) 
VGA board. It turned out I used a Windows 3.0 driver instead 
of the 3.1. Strange thing: the fonts that I had selected as 
defaults were still being used, just the menu option 
disappeared. Try selecting the standard VGA driver that came 
with 3.1 to see if the problem disappears.

		
Peter van der Landen

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