On 3/8/2010 1:15 PM, John McGaw wrote:
> On 3/8/2010 10:58 AM, Bob Hatch wrote:
>> On 3/8/2010 8:43 AM, John McGaw wrote:
>>> On 3/8/2010 8:51 AM, LouB wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>>
>>> There is no "DOS" screen so I'll answer as though you asked for the
>>> DOS-like CMD screen.
>>>
>>> Start CMD. Dial up the default sizes to the largest number they will
>>> accept. Quit CMD. Restart CMD. This yields a full screen on my machine
>>> but YMMV.
>>
>> You missed a step. After "Start CMD", right click on the top bar of the
>> CMD program, select "Defaults", then dial up to maximum in the Window
>> Size box.
>>
>
> I figured that anyone who had been trying to work with CMD would already
> know how to get to the settings. But maybe not...
After years of helping friends and family with their computers, I never
assume anything.
Days of DOS.
Ok, what I want you to do is type dir(space)*.*.
Answer: I did that and it didn't work.
What did you type?
Just what you told me to!
Spell it out for me.
dir star dot star!
OK, sorry, what I meant by "star" is the cap 8 key, try it again.
Well, why didn't you say that. I did and it didn't work.
Spell out for me what you typed.
OK, I did the cap 8, then dot, then cap 8.
When you say you typed "dot" do you mean you typed the period key?
No, you told me to type "dot".
And on it went.
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