Re: DOS window does *not* go to full screen
Hello Rudy,
thanks for your reply. You wrote:
> 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.
Pifmgr.dll is also exactly the same file on both computers.
>> 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
> i run win98/se.
Aha... -------^^
> move the mouse to start/programs/ms dos prompt BUT
> do NOT click on it with the left button. DO CLICK with the right button
> to see a menu with 'properties'on it and click that menu selection.
> the dos properties window will open up with options on tab sheets.
> 'program' and 'screen' is what you want.
> 'ok'
Sorry, in my previous post I forgot to mention, that I already did that.
I chose "normal window" on the "program" tab and "window" on the "screen"
tab.
This works fine on the computer at my office (win98/se), but not on my
computer at home (win 98, *1st* edition)!
> later
> rudy
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Regards,
Juergen
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