Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!decwrl!uunet!ingr!b11!madhouse!andrew From: andrew@b11.ingr.com (Poor Mr. Potter) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: DOS windows in Enhanced mode?? Keywords: Garbage Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 13:18:17 GMT References: <9009052355.AA21062@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <26027@cs.yale.edu> <959@massey.ac.nz> Sender: usenet@b11.ingr.com Lines: 35 ABishop@massey.ac.nz (A.G. Bishop) writes: >In reply to Mike Tierney's note Joel Spolsky writes: >>All you have to do is hit Alt-Enter to go from full-screen DOS to a >>window or back. Yes, you can use PIF's to make this the default. >I found people talking about popping up a Dos *window* confusing until I >went back to the manual too. >When I have the Dos prompt in a window I get funny characters, once the >screen scrolls the new "blank lines" have smiley faces, etc. instead of >blanks. I seem to get a series of Ascii 0's then 1's and so on. >Has anybody else noticed/suffered/solved this problem? Yes. Try loading the ansi.sys driver during boot-up, if you're not already. That worked for me, as far as the funny characters go, but I still can't go directly to a window using a PIF. I get a message saying the application can't be run in a window. But if I run without the PIF, I can start full screen and go to a window via alt-enter. >-- >A.G.Bishop@massey.ac.nz | The opinions, policies and biases > | inflicted upon the Gentle Reader >Computer Centre | herein are mine. >Massey University | >Palmerston North, N.Z. | -- -------------------------------- Andrew Potter