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To: thecow who started this subject	4/29/2004 12:17:34 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) of 110581

Win3.1's DOS PROMPT (versus) WinXP's Command Prompt Old farts like me know Windows 3.1's DOS PROMPT is a seperate operating system like a black & white room without windows. Under Windows 3.1 I made a simple & little text file search program that I coded and build under Window's 3.1 SDK. Now that I have a pc with WinXP, I loaded this program onto the hard drive and entered WinXP's Command Prompt environment and ran this DOS 5.0 built program sucessfully searching into a text file that arrived within the pre-installed Windows XP. Seems that old DOS programs still run on WinXP's Command Prompt. But then I may be the only person outside Inner Mongolia to care :o) But I did notice that entering WinXP's Command Prompt from Start did not come up in full screen mode, but a ¼ window with tiny fonts, and doing a Max made it only a ½ window with same too small text. I finally bumbled around and stumbled upon a menu that allowed me to change those defaults. Able to set the following, plus more. - font size and color - background color - full screen mode If anyone from Inner Mongolia wants to know how to do this, please just reply to this post and I'll post a public "how to." D:oug

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