Subject: Restoring the screen

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 Q: How can I restore the original screen when a program muddles it?

 A: Many (screen oriented) programs do not restore the original
screen after having been run. They either leave their own last
layout on the screen, or, in many cases some kind of a shareware
advertisement (nagware :-), or something else what you'd rather not
remain on your screen after you exit the program. If you normally
use a 25*80 text mode, and you are running a program named, say foo,
which does not restore the screen, make the following batch (I have
ramdisk on r:)
   pushscr r:\tmpscr.$$$ /o
   foo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
   popscr r:\tmpscr.$$$
   del r:\tmpscr.$$$ > nul
The utilities pushscr.exe and popscr.exe are part of the
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutld22.zip package (or whatever version
number is the latest). If the foo program also changes the video
mode, and doesn't change it back, you'll need reset.exe prior
popscr. It is available in ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsutil42.zip.
Alternatively you can use the MS-DOS mode command to restore the
correct video mode.
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