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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > we could not figure out whether to type k, or 3 then k
> 
> BL3 understands both options.  As well as K and 3K.
> 
> > In BL3 I would have typed just 'k' to keep messages, 
> 
> That works.
> 
> > and just H for help (not 6H).
> 
> All of them work in BL3:  H or h or 6H or 6h.


Nice.  Except none of them worked for me because I could not see the 
numbers that I typed, and assumed it was not working.

> > Other people have reported needing to boot twice to get 
> > something to work.  I think it was Xvesa.
> 
> I assumed that occurred because of DOS himem garbage.
> I recommend that people boot from bare DOS (without 
> CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT).  
> 
> > There seems to be some video prolem - missing curssor in rxvt, 
> > missing numbers in mail, missing letters in startx, need to 
> > reboot to get video to work with Xvesa.
> 
> Are you booting from bare DOS?

No, we have himem.sys and emm386.exe in config.sys, because this is a DOS 
computer used for DOS as well as BL3.  I thought the whole point of BL was 
for use on a DOS computer, not on its own computer, and I can't use DOS 
very well without autoexec.bat and config.sys.

My partner was saying something about registers (video?) being programmed 
with some default value, that gets reset the first time a program is used 
and stays set to the new value after that.  Maybe that is going on here.

I will see if booting from a bare DOS on floppy disk fixes the lack of a 
cursor in rxvt.  That problem is not fixing itself when I reboot.

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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