#8 Console window resize support for DOS apps

[copx]

The following statements resize the WinXP console
window when compiled for win32 (using pdcurses 2.8/mingw):

resize_term(TEXT_ROWS, TEXT_COLUMNS);
wresize(stdscr, TEXT_ROWS, TEXT_COLUMNS);

If the same code is compiled for DOS (pdcurses
2.8/djgpp) the resulting program does not properly
resize the console window (it does resize the rows but
not the columns - very strange).

Certainly not a critical feature given the mostly
obsolete nature of DOS but if this can be fixed easily
I would still like to see it.

[William McBrine]

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It's even worse than that. In DOS, resizing is done by a
BIOS call to change the video mode. Only certain fixed sizes
are available; the height can only be set to a few values.
(Check the LINES value after you resize.) More range might
be available via some of the more advanced BIOS functions...
but it's definitely not a simple fix.

[William McBrine]

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BTW, stdscr is already resized by resize_term(), as is
curscr. (Other windows, you'll have to do yourself.)