Subj : Re: XP's "more.com" skips first lines of output -- a bigger problem
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Subject: Re: XP's "more.com" skips first lines of output -- a bigger problem
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:18:59 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
> 
> I threw together a small program emulating a basic MORE program, and noticed
> it failed pretty-much the same way.
> 
> Either my OS has got problems or, more likely, there something wrong with my
> video card and/or driver ...   I've already tried to disable hardware
> accelleration, but that did not seem to help.
> 
> Oh well.

The skipped line might actually be a single long line which is broken into
two lines because it's longer than the number of console buffer columns.
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