Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!kevinc From: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: command.com in window size Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 15:31:37 GMT References: <6279@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <24425106@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 34 tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: >In article <6279@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> cohen@brodmann.iaf.uiowa.edu (Gregg Cohe) writes: >>I have command.com in a window and I have noted that the window opens to a >>reasonable size and then contracts to an almost ridiculously small size. What >>variable in which file do I change that controls the size and font in windows >>like this. >In my experience, the INITIAL size of a DOSapp window in enhanced mode >is however many rows you had up the LAST time you were in DOS -- whether >before Windows was invoked or in the last DOSapp. So if you switch to My experience is not the same. I always run DOs in 25 line mode because of my eyes. Thus, it should never swith to 43 line mode. What seems to be happening is that windows normally runs in 640x480 mode and this seems to predetermine the size of the DOS window relative to what it should be if Windows was in 640x480 mode. However, I run windows in 800x600 mode and thus DOS windows come up sized for a standard 640x480 and then shrink to fit the newere dimensions of the 800x600. I just tried switching to 640x480 mode and running a dos window and it didn't shrink. Let met try 1024x768 mode ..... Yep, it shrank really small. Maybe this isn't what's going on and I can't think of why this should happen from a technical standpoint but from an observational point this is what seems to be happening. Kevin -- Kevin "auric" Crocker Athabasca University UUCP: ...!{alberta,ncc}!atha!kevinc Inet: kevinc@cs.AthabascaU.CA