Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/02/09:00:23
Myknees wrote:
>
> In article <34F6ED01 DOT 3B36 AT nortel DOT ca>, Ian Chapman <ichapman AT nortel DOT ca> writes:
>
> >Avoid hitting the little wee square at the top of the dos
> >window as this puts
> >you into a full size dos screen and you are stuck
> >there until you go into
> >c:\window\startetc to reconfig the dos window.
>
> You may know this already, but you can hit ALT-RET (the alt key and enter) to
> switch the DOS box from full-screen to window. Also, you can type exit at the
> command line to end your DOS session.
>
> If you've been exiting the DOS box by clicking the "X" in the corner of the
> window (I don't know if that is what you were saying.)-- If that is the case,
> you may want to consider using the exit command instead, since Windows can't
> always kill DOS processes.
>
> --Ed (Myknees)
Hi ED,
yes, I did know and do that. The little square is not the one top
right (size) between quit x and Underscore (iconise). It's in the
toolbar top leftish called fullscreen. This gives a full size screen
without a Win95 toolbar. (just like pre-win dos). then when you exit
or alt tab etc this is your default screen. That is next time you power
up and clk on the dos icon you get a dos full seze dos screen not a dos
window. To get back to a dos window you must edit the dos icon or its
alias.
I only got into this due to my super system at work. The standard dos
and rhide defaults were fine on the 14" job at home. Oh and of course
when I quit rhide with a full size 21" screen dos was locked and I had
to "alt con del" which was a drag. Once I set up the dos icon and rhide
it works really good at work.
Thanks for the mail Ian.
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