dpelch Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 What do I have to change in XP for a DOS program's txt to run in a full screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 Open a "DOS" window... Right click on it's title bar and select "Defaults". You will see a "Display Options/Full Screen" button. Select it and close the window. The next time you start a "DOS" session, it will be full screen. Remember to enter "exit" and return to close and return to XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryder Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 Open a "DOS" window... Right click on it's title bar and select "Defaults". You will see a "Display Options/Full Screen" button. Select it and close the window. The next time you start a "DOS" session, it will be full screen. Remember to enter "exit" and return to close and return to XP.Thanks Perry!!! That is one trick I did not know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Well (--refering to an earlier DOS topic), I didn't know you could run DOS in XP, but then since I refruse to XP and I'm an unreconstructed DOS user (WordStar 6 for example), I get by with DOS in Win98, and most recently Win 2000 pro.Dos does everything I want it to in a Win98SE DOS window, but I've recently become fond of Win2000's stability and ability to recover network connections after recovering from standby --see Scot's recent discussions on NetBEUI.I have 3 computers running Win2000. On one of them, Dos programs run okay, but are a bit sluggish. On the two others, some DOS programs work fine and a couple I'm used to using all the time won't work at all.Take FastFileFind for example. For years I've been using Jim Derr's program in various versions, most recently FFF52, a great little program. But it won't work on two of my Win2000 computers. Curiously, an earlier 1989 version will work, but it's not Y2k compliant or something, so gives the wrong file dates. Yet ff52 works just fine on one Win2000 computer. On that same computer I can open a command window and run list or df (another file manager) or laplink3 from any directory. I seem to have the path set right.But on the other 2 computers, the danged programs only run if I execute them from the directory they're in. Another little program, block gives a block cursor on one machine, but not on the other two.Still I'm able to use WS6 in all of them, so my grumbles are really what Abraham Maslow might call high grumbles or metagrumbles. I can live with the quirkiness of Win2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 FYI, there is a DOS window in XP / 2000 that is different from the command prompt window.Open a command prompt window and then type command, run the ver command to show the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 FYI, there is a DOS window in XP / 2000 that is different from the command prompt window.Open a command prompt window and then type command, run the ver command to show the difference.That's because the DOS in windows 2000/xp is more like a DOS emulator than a real DOS itself. If you can tell, Windows 2000/XP is the departure from DOS. Even scandisk (chkdsk) in Windows 2000/xp has more GUI look too.Thunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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