Command Line CMD in Vista

[Ricardo Teixeira]

Hi!
Only one little question, how do i use CMD in full screen? I have an old
financial software made in Clipper and it works in vista but i cant use it
in full screen!
When i press CTRL+ENTER it says : "This system does not support Fullscreen!
Could someone help me?

Thanks

Ricardo Teixeira
Portugal

 

[Guest]

Ricardo:
You might want to try installing the freeware DOSBOX program
(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1) and run your old software
in that window.
Download link:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/DOSBox0.70-win32-installer.exe?download
I think that combination allows you the full screen option.
Carlos
Argentina

 

[Lang Murphy]

Yes, Vista doesn't support "full screen" cmd windows. Does your app require
full screen or is that just how you'd like to run it? If you open a cmd
window, you can change the size of it so that it appears as if it running
full screen. Don't know if that helps or not...

Lang

 

[Guy Thomas]

Hi!
Only one little question, how do i use CMD in full screen? I have an old
financial software made in Clipper and it works in vista but i cant use it
in full screen!
When i press CTRL+ENTER it says : "This system does not support
Fullscreen!
Could someone help me?

Thanks

Ricardo Teixeira
Portugal

How about opening a CMD session, click on the icon top right, Properties,
Layout, Full Screen

Guy

 

[Guy Thomas]

How about opening a CMD session, click on the icon top right, Properties,
Layout, Full Screen

Guy

P.S. It was Options, not Layout

 

[Guest]

Not in my windows with a text mode app (edit.com - Vista's advanced text
mode editor). So I started Dosshell is Graphics mode and Windows complained
that it can't run as full mode not available. This could of course be a
NVIdia driver issue but I ain't changing video cards to test.

 

[Ricardo Teixeira]

My app runs in a windows, but my users are used to work in full screen!
I would like really full screen.... I´ll try DOSBOX program!
Thanks to all!

 

[Dave R.]

Yes, Vista doesn't support "full screen" cmd windows. Does your app
require full screen or is that just how you'd like to run it? If you
open a cmd window, you can change the size of it so that it appears as
if it running full screen. Don't know if that helps or not...

Unfortunately, none of the fonts MS provides for the CMD window do a
good job of filling the screen at 80x25 which is what most 16-bit text
mode programs run in. Anyone know of a way to get better font choices
for the CMD window?

Regards,

Dave

 

[Dave R.]

P.S. It was Options, not Layout

Full Screen doesn't appear to be a choice in either Options or Layout on
any of the Vista systems I have access to. Have you installed something
that gives you that ability? If so, what was it?

Regards,

Dave

 

[Guest]

Full Screen is a video driver function.

Unfortunately, none of the fonts MS provides for the CMD window do a good
job of filling the screen at 80x25 which is what most 16-bit text mode
programs run in. Anyone know of a way to get better font choices for the
CMD window?

Regards,

Dave

 

[Lang Murphy]

Well, this is kind of interesting... I'm running Vista in a VM on this box.
If I open a cmd window, hit the upper left hand icon | properties the
Options page has a Display Options group box with Window and Full Screen as
the choices. If I select Full Screen, the cmd window goes into "Full Screen"
but the entire VM window is shrunk by approx. 80%.

I've got Vista running as host OS on another box. Open cmd window in that
and properties | Options does NOT have a Display Options group box in the
upper right hand corner.

Both PC's have LCD monitors... I wonder how this would work on a CRT? I'm
guessing the VM thinks it's a CRT.

Hmm...

Lang

 

[Guest]

I still back display drivers. Windows switches to full screen when an app
sets an SVGA mode (as Display Virtual Device Driver only does standard Dos
modes) and lets the program talk direct to the video card. There must be
something about current drivers that remove the ability.

 

[ronald.phillips]

I still back display drivers. Windows switches to full screen when an app
sets an SVGA mode (as Display Virtual Device Driver only does standard Dos
modes) and lets the program talk direct to the video card. There must be

WDDM (Vista) drivers do not allow int10 access which is require for
full-screen command prompt. Only way to get full screen command prompt
in Windows Vista is to install the XDDM (XP) drivers. If your going to
do that then you may as well just reinstall XP.

 

[Dave R.]

Full Screen is a video driver function.

I understand that, and I understand that MS has removed the ability to
do full screen CMD. What I'm looking for is anyone who might have a way
to allow more font choices than what MS provides for the windowed CMD
prompt so I can get it closer to taking up the full screen.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Guest]

But hoooooow could they break Dosshell. Will I have to learn Explorer?

 

[Guest]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247815

I understand that, and I understand that MS has removed the ability to do
full screen CMD. What I'm looking for is anyone who might have a way to
allow more font choices than what MS provides for the windowed CMD prompt
so I can get it closer to taking up the full screen.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Lang Murphy]

What do you do in a cmd window? You can resize the cmd to window to go "full
screen" but I think you or someone else said the fonts weren't good if one
did that...

Lang

 

[Guest]

I don't understand. It is a video driver issue.

What do you do in a cmd window? You can resize the cmd to window to go
"full screen" but I think you or someone else said the fonts weren't good
if one did that...

Lang

 

[Lang Murphy]

What I mean is you can't run in a "real" full screen window, but you can
open the properties for the cmd window and go to the layout tab and change
the Window size so that it fills your screen, creating a "false" full screen
cmd window.

Clear as mud?

Again... what do you do in this cmd window?

Lang