The content will indeed wrap, just on a per-character basis instead of 
per-word. It functions exactly how wrapping does when printing to the entire 
screen.




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On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 at 7:53 PM, Zbigniew <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote:


> > If you're speaking purely about limiting the cursor to the bounds of the
> > current window (which is what I believe you're referring to), yes I believe
> > it does do that much, if I remember correctly.
> >
> > However, if you're referring to some kind of "smart" word wrap ability, the
> > answer is no. The BIOS performs only basic dynamic text port sizing and does
> > not provide any sort of text wrapping or kerning features. It merely wraps
> > text to the boundaries of the window, just as it would when writing strings
> > to the full screen. Of course a programmer could always make their own... :)
>
>
> A little bit strange. You mean BIOS 10h will trap cursor, but if I
> do any output
> its screen-output functions won't do word-wrap within the bounds of the 
> window?
> --
> regards,
> Z.
>
>
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