Re: command prompt window > 50 lines
From: Russell Styles (rws0203_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/26/04
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:54:32 -0500
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I believe that I owe an apology to all of the people that replied to my
queries, here and on the microsoft.public.windowsxp.basic newsgroup (all 4
people).
It seems that Win98 was in fact restricting me to 50 lines, but it was a
font that I have not copied to the XP pc yet. Oops. (Hint: it works better
when you plug it in).
Once I copy the 8x18 font, all should be well. I was using 8x12, and
getting only 2/3 thirds of a screen.
I should be grateful for the fact that XP does allow more than 50 lines,
albeit only when at the prompt.
Oh well. I learned a lot while I was crawling the newsgroups. Lots of
interesting URL's and advice and utilities.
"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:406471E7.90203@yahoo.com...
> If the program you are running sets its screen such that it only
> displays x lines, how is the operating system supposed to "generate" the
> additional screen?
>
> Russell Styles wrote:
>
> > "Paul R. Sadowski" <xpert@mailshell13.mailshell.com> wrote in message
> > news:OPt%23ROuEEHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >
> >>"Russell Styles" <rws0203@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >>news:ic-dnbTjs9dcAP7dRVn-tA@giganews.com...
> >>
> >>> I understand that this newsgroup says "win2000", but there is
> >>>no cmdprompt newsgroup for XP.
> >>>
> >>>On Win98Se, I could set the command prompt window to more than 50
lines,
> >>>and some character mode programs would work properly. An example would
> >>>
> > be
> >
> >>>EDIT.
> >>>
> >>> On XP, if I set the command prompt window & buffer to 70 lines (for
> >>>
> > an
> >
> >>>example), it works properly with commands like DIR and TYPE, but any
> >>>
> > real
> >
> >>>program, such as EDIT, will reset the command prompt window to 50
lines.
> >>>It
> >>>will return to it's former setting when the program exits.
> >>>
> >>Haven't seen that but I'm not using 16 bit programs like edit.com.
> >>
> >>Try a 32 bit console editor. Perhaps a console editor like FTE.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I am actually not interested in EDIT, I just used it as an
example,
> > because it
> > comes with windows. This problem happens with any character mode
program.
> > Some go
> > all the way back to 25 lines, but there are a few that allow basically
any
> > number of lines (like
> > buerg's LIST). With Win98, I get 70 lines. With XP I get 50. I do not
> > remember what happened with Win2000.
> >
> >
> >
>
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