Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!pshuang From: pshuang@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: command.com in window size Message-ID: <9106092128.AA03483@w20-575-105.MIT.EDU> Date: 9 Jun 91 21:28:21 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 In article kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes: > 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. When you run a DOS application in a window, Windows uses fixed-sized fonts to display the characters in that window. Suppose you have a 1024x768 display and open a standard COMMAND.COM window, which would be displaying 80x25 text. Windows probably is using a screen font whose matrix size is about 8x16 (standard VGA font size), which means the 80x25 text screen is being represented by a 640x400 bitmap window, which would fill just about the entire screen on a standard VGA display, but only half the screen on a 800x600 display and even less on 1024x768. If you look in your SYSTEM.INI file, you'll see some references to fonts (cannot recall the exact header of the right section) which determines the default font Windows uses. You can modify this selection; if you choose to have Windows use the EGA fonts or the 8514/A fonts, for example, the window containing COMMAND.COM will vary in size. Singing off, UNIX:/etc/ping instantiated (Ping Huang).