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Utility programs, Vgamode utility, A-57 – Epson 386/25 User Manual

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Utility Programs

Your Utility diskettes contain the following VGA utility

programs:

❏ VGAMODE

❏ SETVGA

❏ MODETEST

❏ WS33INST

❏ SNOOZE.

These utilities are described in the sections below.

VGAMODE Utility

VGAMODE provides 132-column text in popular text-based

applications, such as WordStar and WordPerfect. The

VGAMODE utility allows you to specify the number of rows

(lines) and columns you want displayed on the screen.

Installing the utility

Follow these steps to install VGAMODE:

1.

Run the VGA Driver Setup program on your Utility 1

diskette to copy the VGAMODE utility to your hard disk.

From the Main Menu, select

Utility programs.

Then select

VGAMODE

from the submenu. See “Using the

VGA Driver Setup Program” on page A-4 for instructions.

When Setup asks for the name of the drive and directory to

contain the utility file, you can either press

Enter

to use the

default directory or change the pathname to your utility

directory, if you already have one.

Using the VGA Utilities

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