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Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?

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Ken Blake, MVP

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:27:17 -0500, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> FiOS-Dave wrote:
> > Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
> > click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
> > select the width and height for the window.
> > Can be full screen, if desired.
> > This has worked as far back as I can remember!
> >
> > Dave
>
> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7



Whether it works or not depends on your definition of Full Screen. If
you mean the literal Full-Screen definition that Windows uses, you are
right--what FiOS-Dave said doesn't work. But if you mean a Window that
takes up the full screen space (which is almost certainly what the OP
wanted), yes, it works just fine.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:54:57 -0600, Dave wrote:
>
>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:4B95B5BB.3050505@invalid.invalid...
>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:4B9500F4.8070107@invalid.invalid...
>>>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>>>
>>>> This works on XP - Open a CMD window and type (left) alt + enter.
>>>> It won't work on Win7 or Vista though.
>>>>
>>> So why did you reply? This IS a Win7 group
>>
>> Now you know why you only got one intelligent answer.
>
> More precisely, now *we* know :)
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Well, I was hoping he would end up knowing but in reality you are more
correct than I am. =D
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> FiOS-Dave wrote:
>> Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
>> click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
>> select the width and height for the window.
>> Can be full screen, if desired.
>> This has worked as far back as I can remember!
>>
>> Dave
>
> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7

IT JUST WORKED FOR ME in Win7. I have a wide screen monitor and I could set
it for any width or height I want.
The other Dave
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Dave wrote:
>
>
> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4B98D395.70102@invalid.invalid...
>> FiOS-Dave wrote:
>>> Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
>>> click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
>>> select the width and height for the window.
>>> Can be full screen, if desired.
>>> This has worked as far back as I can remember!
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
>> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7
>
> IT JUST WORKED FOR ME in Win7. I have a wide screen monitor and I could
> set it for any width or height I want.
> The other Dave

Yeah I finally got it to work last night, but...
The font is too damn small:-((
Using XP I could set the screen to display only 25 lines which gave me
an easily readible screen.
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Dave wrote:
>>
>>
>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:4B98D395.70102@invalid.invalid...
>>> FiOS-Dave wrote:
>>>> Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
>>>> click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
>>>> select the width and height for the window.
>>>> Can be full screen, if desired.
>>>> This has worked as far back as I can remember!
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>
>>> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
>>> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7
>>
>> IT JUST WORKED FOR ME in Win7. I have a wide screen monitor and I could
>> set it for any width or height I want.
>> The other Dave
>
> Yeah I finally got it to work last night, but...
> The font is too damn small:-((
> Using XP I could set the screen to display only 25 lines which gave me an
> easily readible screen.

There's a setting there to change the font too. When I first started playing
with it I was changing the font instead of the screen size.
Dave
 
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Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:02:54 -0600, Dave wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1khnzxg1yg0iz$.1q9786klvgnn0$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:54:57 -0600, Dave wrote:
>>
>>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:4B95B5BB.3050505@invalid.invalid...
>>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>> news:4B9500F4.8070107@invalid.invalid...
>>>>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>>>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> This works on XP - Open a CMD window and type (left) alt + enter.
>>>>> It won't work on Win7 or Vista though.
>>>>>
>>>> So why did you reply? This IS a Win7 group
>>>
>>> Now you know why you only got one intelligent answer.
>>
>> More precisely, now *we* know :)
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
>
> Well, I was hoping he would end up knowing but in reality you are more
> correct than I am. =D

Thanks for understanding - after I clicked 'send' I was afraid that I said
it too tersely for clarity :)

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Dave wrote:
>
>
> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4B995F84.4010607@invalid.invalid...
>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:4B98D395.70102@invalid.invalid...
>>>> FiOS-Dave wrote:
>>>>> Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
>>>>> click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
>>>>> select the width and height for the window.
>>>>> Can be full screen, if desired.
>>>>> This has worked as far back as I can remember!
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
>>>> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7
>>>
>>> IT JUST WORKED FOR ME in Win7. I have a wide screen monitor and I
>>> could set it for any width or height I want.
>>> The other Dave
>>
>> Yeah I finally got it to work last night, but...
>> The font is too damn small:-((
>> Using XP I could set the screen to display only 25 lines which gave me
>> an easily readible screen.
>
> There's a setting there to change the font too. When I first started
> playing with it I was changing the font instead of the screen size.
> Dave

I expected the different settings to just change the look, but eureka
setting font to 10X20 gives a decent screen.

Thank You!!

Lou
 
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FiOS-Dave

Flightless Bird
"Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9D3573CF9D71Dnilch1@130.133.4.11...
> On 08 Mar 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
> alt.windows7.general:
>
>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>
> Wear a wooden goat mask and dance naked in the wheat field at midnight.
> I have tried my solution and it works.

I can verify that. I have actually seen him...
By the way, his solution is 7% morphine...

Dave
 
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FiOS-Dave

Flightless Bird
"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9D3573CF9D71Dnilch1@130.133.4.11...
>> On 08 Mar 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>> alt.windows7.general:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>
>> Wear a wooden goat mask and dance naked in the wheat field at midnight.
>> I have tried my solution and it works.
>
> I have found that, in order for this to work on an Acer computer, the
> wooden mask must
> be made of Maple. (Latin joke)
>
> Tom Lake

And logged into JohnBirchSociety.com

Dave
 
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FiOS-Dave

Flightless Bird
"Dave" <davidj92@wowway.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9D3573CF9D71Dnilch1@130.133.4.11...
>> On 08 Mar 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>> alt.windows7.general:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>
>> Wear a wooden goat mask and dance naked in the wheat field at midnight.
>> I have tried my solution and it works.
>
> That's funny, I got it to work with a chicken mask.
> Dave
How hard was it to get it on the chicken???

Another Dave
 
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johnbee

Flightless Bird
"FiOS-Dave" <FiOS-Dave@fakeaddress.zz> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Dave" <davidj92@wowway.com> wrote in message
> news:BMWdncW0KbbwqQjWnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@sigecom.net...
>>
>>
>> "Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9D3573CF9D71Dnilch1@130.133.4.11...
>>> On 08 Mar 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>>> alt.windows7.general:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>>
>>> Wear a wooden goat mask and dance naked in the wheat field at midnight.
>>> I have tried my solution and it works.
>>
>> That's funny, I got it to work with a chicken mask.
>> Dave
> How hard was it to get it on the chicken???
>
> Another Dave

I would like to add a comment to this thread. It is not actually correct
that
the black screen that one gets when entering cmd or command in the run
box is an emulator. The purpose of it is to enter command mode. In
command mode you can do all sorts of things easily which can't be done
otherwise. Not so long ago it even got into the national press, in the
form
of mention of the Ping command.
Have a look at the help section on command-line reference for
IT pros. It is essential for people writing systems and also
administrators, and
can be useful for normal users who are interested in for example what their
IP address is and whether they can change it - which they might want to do
for various reasons, and what their MAC settings are.

For myself, when a man comes on who uses commands I would be a bit
wary of taking the piss because he calls it the DOS prompt.
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"FiOS-Dave" <FiOS-Dave@fakeaddress.zz> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Dave" <davidj92@wowway.com> wrote in message
> news:BMWdncW0KbbwqQjWnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@sigecom.net...
>>
>>
>> "Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9D3573CF9D71Dnilch1@130.133.4.11...
>>> On 08 Mar 2010, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>>> alt.windows7.general:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to get the DOS screen to run full screen?
>>>> Please do not reply unless you have tried your solution.
>>>
>>> Wear a wooden goat mask and dance naked in the wheat field at midnight.
>>> I have tried my solution and it works.
>>
>> That's funny, I got it to work with a chicken mask.
>> Dave
> How hard was it to get it on the chicken???
>
> Another Dave
Worked first time with the chicken mask, then we ate.....
are you ready for this? FRIED CHICKEN =D
The other Dave
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"johnbee" <johnbrockbank@virginmedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> I would like to add a comment to this thread. It is not actually correct
> that
> the black screen that one gets when entering cmd or command in the run
> box is an emulator. The purpose of it is to enter command mode. In
> command mode you can do all sorts of things easily which can't be done
> otherwise. Not so long ago it even got into the national press, in the
> form
> of mention of the Ping command.
> Have a look at the help section on command-line reference for
> IT pros. It is essential for people writing systems and also
> administrators, and
> can be useful for normal users who are interested in for example what
> their
> IP address is and whether they can change it - which they might want to do
> for various reasons, and what their MAC settings are.
>
> For myself, when a man comes on who uses commands I would be a bit
> wary of taking the piss because he calls it the DOS prompt.

Technically you are correct, the command line is/was used for many different
OS's like Basic, Python, LISP, DOS, UNIX, Cisco and many others before the
GUI"s (Graphical User Interface ie Windows) came about. There were a lot of
different commands, including Ping, some were OS specific and others would
translate to other OS's, some were similar enough to be the same.
But, in this case the commands he wants to use are related to DOS rather
than one of the other computer languages or OS's. In response to the
emulator part of your post, "a terminal emulator, terminal application,
term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video terminal
within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a
command line shell or text terminal, the term terminal covers all remote
terminals, including graphical interfaces. A terminal emulator inside a
graphical user interface is often called a terminal window." --wikipedia.org
Basically, it's 12 inches or 1 foot, it's still a command line window.
HTH,
Dave
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Dave wrote:
>
>
> "johnbee" <johnbrockbank@virginmedia.com> wrote in message
> news:hne8ct$j2a$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> I would like to add a comment to this thread. It is not actually
>> correct that
>> the black screen that one gets when entering cmd or command in the run
>> box is an emulator. The purpose of it is to enter command mode. In
>> command mode you can do all sorts of things easily which can't be done
>> otherwise. Not so long ago it even got into the national press, in
>> the form
>> of mention of the Ping command.
>> Have a look at the help section on command-line reference for
>> IT pros. It is essential for people writing systems and also
>> administrators, and
>> can be useful for normal users who are interested in for example what
>> their
>> IP address is and whether they can change it - which they might want
>> to do
>> for various reasons, and what their MAC settings are.
>>
>> For myself, when a man comes on who uses commands I would be a bit
>> wary of taking the piss because he calls it the DOS prompt.
>
> Technically you are correct, the command line is/was used for many
> different OS's like Basic, Python, LISP, DOS, UNIX, Cisco and many
> others before the GUI"s (Graphical User Interface ie Windows) came
> about. There were a lot of different commands, including Ping, some were
> OS specific and others would translate to other OS's, some were similar
> enough to be the same.
> But, in this case the commands he wants to use are related to DOS rather
> than one of the other computer languages or OS's. In response to the
> emulator part of your post, "a terminal emulator, terminal application,
> term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a "dumb" video
> terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically
> synonymous with a command line shell or text terminal, the term terminal
> covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces. A terminal
> emulator inside a graphical user interface is often called a terminal
> window." --wikipedia.org
> Basically, it's 12 inches or 1 foot, it's still a command line window.
> HTH,
> Dave

I want to thank Dave again.
I now have a full screen of 30 easily readable lines so if I decide to
go to my C: prompt it is easy to read and use.

FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this
group were born:))

Lou
 
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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:16 -0500, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I want to thank Dave again.
>I now have a full screen of 30 easily readable lines so if I decide to
>go to my C: prompt it is easy to read and use.
>
>FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this
>group were born:))

That might explain why you still call it a C: prompt. :)
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
"LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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snip
> FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this group
> were born:))
>
> Lou

When it stops being fun it will be time to quit playing. =D
Dave
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Dave wrote:
>
>
> "LouB" <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4B9AEA6C.1010704@invalid.invalid...
> snip
>> FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this
>> group were born:))
>>
>> Lou
>
> When it stops being fun it will be time to quit playing. =D
> Dave

Well I retired almost 6 years ago. And I am not currently doing user
support because there are too many things to try and fix. And I do not
come close to using all the differnt features out there, but Google and
the Net have continued to make 'puters fun.

Lou
 
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Gary H

Flightless Bird
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:56:29 -0600, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:16 -0500, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I want to thank Dave again.
>>I now have a full screen of 30 easily readable lines so if I decide to
>>go to my C: prompt it is easy to read and use.
>>
>>FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this
>>group were born:))
>
>That might explain why you still call it a C: prompt. :)

Which is actually incorrect. It's a command prompt. The "C" is a piece
of information which is included in the prompt. It indicates the
current default drive, and can be changed to the letter of any drive
that's there.
 
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Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:33:54 -0600, Gary H
<garyh@notspammable.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:56:29 -0600, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:16 -0500, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>I want to thank Dave again.
>>>I now have a full screen of 30 easily readable lines so if I decide to
>>>go to my C: prompt it is easy to read and use.
>>>
>>>FWIW I have been "playing" with computers since before many in this
>>>group were born:))
>>
>>That might explain why you still call it a C: prompt. :)
>
>Which is actually incorrect. It's a command prompt. The "C" is a piece
>of information which is included in the prompt. It indicates the
>current default drive, and can be changed to the letter of any drive
>that's there.

Thanks. That's the point I was trying to make.
 
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Alzaman

Flightless Bird
This is true, Windows 7 doesn't offer the "Full Screen" option in properties
as XP, et al, did.

But, you can adjust the buffer and layout size to replicate a full screen,
in the layout tab of properties.



"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:dncip59pv3hg0q2mnetoslb54bgjq0q3vr@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:27:17 -0500, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> FiOS-Dave wrote:
>> > Open DOS window. (Run CMD)
>> > click on little icon in the upper left, Properties,
>> > select the width and height for the window.
>> > Can be full screen, if desired.
>> > This has worked as far back as I can remember!
>> >
>> > Dave
>>
>> Have you actually tried your suggestion on a Win7 system?????????
>> I have and it DOES NOT WORK in Win7
>
>
>
> Whether it works or not depends on your definition of Full Screen. If
> you mean the literal Full-Screen definition that Windows uses, you are
> right--what FiOS-Dave said doesn't work. But if you mean a Window that
> takes up the full screen space (which is almost certainly what the OP
> wanted), yes, it works just fine.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
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