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dharmacek: I just converted one of my client ArevDOS installations to Arev32. I'm going to start a number of threads about my experience. Feel free to ask questions or post your own solutions/problems. PM: The Arev of DOS was version 3.12. It has been interoperating with OI 3.75 for years, and OI 7.3, then OI 8.0.6.


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paladinn Serial communications 0 May 30 2009, 11:14 AM EDT by paladinn
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V123 and V124 seem to have gone away in Arev32. Does anyone know of a good workaround? My VB/C++ skills aren't what they should be. I wonder if there's a good dll/ole/exe solution that would be inexpensive (free would be nice).
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dharmacek Bugs and workarounds version 8.0.6 2 Aug 20 2008, 9:49 AM EDT by dharmacek
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VIDCTRL appears when AREV32_...FORM is closed - Upon closing Arev32 an error message stating that $vidctrl was not found. Then the program closes properly. This was an assembler program called by Arev during closing. (patch available) (fixed in 8.0.7)

Resizing the Arev32 form:

This window can be resized like any Windows window by grabbing the lower right corner with the mouse and resizing it. You will notice that it automatically changes which font is used. A ratio can be chosen that looks good (and bad). Noticed that the menu character (a solid triangle/arrow) changes to a circle in some ratios.

ENVIRONMENT records not named for user don't work: (fixed in 8.0.7)

In Arev for DOS you could have an environment, like MGMT. Then, in the User (e.g. USER1) setup window (in SYSPROG) you could specify that a user's environment was MGMT. Then Arev would ignore the USER1_ENVIRONMENT row and use the MGMT_ENVIRONMENT as USER1 logged in. I have found that Arev32 allows you to specify a different environment row, but actually uses the one with the name of the user. (Bug Tracker issue 1001, fix sked 9.0)

LIST - If the option is not at the end of the command line, the option character causes an error: e.g. LIST CUSTOMERS (T) BY STATE returns an error about T not found (Bug Tracker issue 1006, patch available, fix sked for v9.0)
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dharmacek Screen appearance 2 Jul 16 2008, 8:12 PM EDT by dharmacek
Thread started: Jun 23 2008, 9:48 AM EDT  Watch
The appearance of the Arev32 window was a disappointment to many users. The characters were deemed indistinct, even after adjustment for best appearance.

The default font used appears to be Courier New. This can be changed, see CTO configuration records and layout.

You can experiment with various monospaced fonts like:

Courier New, default, resizes XP
Fixedsys, does not resize XP
Lucida Console, best appearance XP
Consolas ugly from Microsoft
Vera Sans Mono worse than Lucida Console from Bitstream


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