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DosBox and Window size



Carl, the advent of Portable.PM is magnificently timely. Thank you.

I have just added my first Windows 7 computer, a Thinkpad, to the stable, and Portable.PM worked
like a dream. There's XY4, complete with thesaurus.

But of course there are other annoyances in the 64-bit realm.

I'm using DosBox for an emulator (and a front-end called D-Box that lets me substitute one click for
the 3 or 4 commands via DosBox--though the problems below exist with or without D-Box).

Two problems:

1) The XY window I get is a fixed size, no stretching possible, full-screen rectangle grayed out.
F12 changes the CPU speed, not a full-screen toggle.

2) Clipboard.exe doesn't seem to function. That's more major.

On screen size: D-Box offers a full-screen option among its preferences, but that crashes. According
to this WordPerfect for DOS page, that's because the full-screen settings in D-Box are bigger than
the laptop screen. Harry, the page also explains that Tame doesn't do anything in DosBox.

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wpdosbox64.html

Does anyone using DosBox have a way to change the window size? It's the right number of lines, just
a tad too small.

As for Clipboard...any suggestions? A path to change somewhere?

Jon Pareles