DOS
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Because I've been using computers since DOS was invented, I learned from a younge person to use DOS, and old habbits die hard. xcopy /s still comes in very useful. I was wondering why Microsoft hasnt upgraded DOS. Command prompt has several advanatages over the Windows System. Unix users know of these very well. I think it is about time Microsoft made the DOS window enabled to be anysize, scrollable, and upgrade the commands. Surely one of the Microsoft Developers must have thought of this before because it would help DOS compete with UNIX. And I'm sure it wouldnt be hard to do. Do you think they are afraid of touching Bill Gates's code?
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Because I've been using computers since DOS was invented, I learned from a younge person to use DOS, and old habbits die hard. xcopy /s still comes in very useful. I was wondering why Microsoft hasnt upgraded DOS. Command prompt has several advanatages over the Windows System. Unix users know of these very well. I think it is about time Microsoft made the DOS window enabled to be anysize, scrollable, and upgrade the commands. Surely one of the Microsoft Developers must have thought of this before because it would help DOS compete with UNIX. And I'm sure it wouldnt be hard to do. Do you think they are afraid of touching Bill Gates's code?
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You can change the DOS window size. Right click on the title bar and select properties, layout. Increase the Window size as desired. The window will scroll too.
Can you please be a little more specific. I can get to the properties screen, but I can not find the layout tag (I use Win98 if this is to do with it). I would love to be able to scroll so I can stop using Unix's " | More" command to view c#'s compiler errors.
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You can change the DOS window size. Right click on the title bar and select properties, layout. Increase the Window size as desired. The window will scroll too.
Upgrading the initial environment to the max (4096) instead of auto under the memory tag of properties let me increace the amount of text displayed. :) yay. Now how to get it to scroll....
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Upgrading the initial environment to the max (4096) instead of auto under the memory tag of properties let me increace the amount of text displayed. :) yay. Now how to get it to scroll....
Ivan not sure how it works in Windows 9x, but with Windows NT/2000 if you go into the Properties of the Command Prompt and select the Layout tab you can set the Screen Buffer Size and Windows Size. I have mine set to 300 Rows by 80 Columns for Screen Buffer Size and 50 Rows by 80 Columns for Screen Size. This allows for more data to be available than is displayed on the screen and the vertical scroll bar appears automatically. Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018
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Because I've been using computers since DOS was invented, I learned from a younge person to use DOS, and old habbits die hard. xcopy /s still comes in very useful. I was wondering why Microsoft hasnt upgraded DOS. Command prompt has several advanatages over the Windows System. Unix users know of these very well. I think it is about time Microsoft made the DOS window enabled to be anysize, scrollable, and upgrade the commands. Surely one of the Microsoft Developers must have thought of this before because it would help DOS compete with UNIX. And I'm sure it wouldnt be hard to do. Do you think they are afraid of touching Bill Gates's code?
try using 4dos (search for it) we used to use it all the time --- "every year we invent better idiot proof systems and every year they invent better idiots"
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Upgrading the initial environment to the max (4096) instead of auto under the memory tag of properties let me increace the amount of text displayed. :) yay. Now how to get it to scroll....
This is Win 98 specific 1. Open up the command prompt and select properties. 2. Go to the Screen Tab. 3. Change the Initial Size to the max which is 50 lines. Now you may not see scroll bars because the command line will be 50 lines long, but if you resize it to only display <50 lines then the scroll bars will appear. Wayne