Re: DOS window does *not* go to full screen
- Posted by Euler German <efgerman at myrealbox.com> Sep 25, 2002
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On 25 Sep 2002, at 16:38, Juergen Luethje wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think many of you know this annoying behavior of ex.exe: When running > it the first time after creating a new small DOS window, it always makes > the window go to full screen. This problem is described in > "trouble.htm", and has also been discussed here. > > On my PC at home (Win 98 1st ed.), this happens too, and I got more or > less used to it. So I was very surprised, when I run one of my Euphoria > DOS programs on a PC (Win 98 2nd ed.) at my office, and this problem did > *not* occur!! > > Unfortunately I don't know much about the technical details of PCs. Just > to get started, I compared some files from the "windows\system" folders: > - conagent.exe - conlock.mod - redirect.mod - winoa386.mod This 4 files > are identical on both PCs. > > What could be the reason for the different behavior? Do all of you have > this problem on Win 98 1st ed., and don't have this problem on Win 98 > 2nd ed.? Or maybe it's a hardware issue? My hope is, that I can solve > the problem on my PC at home, just by updating some files. > > Regards, > Juergen > Juergen: It looks like a PIF matter. Right-click "Ex.exe" at your BIN folder and select "properties". Then select a tab for "screen" (between "memory" and "misc" tabs). Select window or full screen as you wish. By doing this you'll be editing your ex.pif configuration file. That's all :) Be good, -- Euler