Re: loading from icon in xp and xylist.

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Avrom Fischer wrote:
> Your suggestion about using alt enter to switch to full screen worked perfectly.
Well, thanks be. That means we do not have any BIOS or hardware or
Windows issues to worry about. There was probably something skew-whiff
in one of your properties settings.


I was comparing the two ways of setting pif properties in W2K
yesterday, that is, by right-clicking the desktop icon (hereafter, DS,
for Desktop Shortcut) and by right-clicking the title bar (hereafter
TB) of a running DOS session. (Have to check on an XP box Monday.)


The tabs for General and Shortcut appear to be found only on the DS
set. Those for Options (cursor size, command history, etc.), Display
Options (Window or Full Screen), Edit Options, Font, Layout (screen
buffer size, Window size, Window position) appear to be the same in
both. Now we know that the DS set for Font doesn't take. If you want
to set the font you have to do it from the Title Bar set. What about
the others? Do ANY of them take when set from the DS Properties tab?
Or muct one get a VDM session running in a window first to set them,
using the TB set? (Yes, I can experiment to determine this and will if
necessary, but I thought someone might have already done so and could
say.)


The tabs for Options (cursor size, command history, etc.)
> As I explained in my prior email, I had followed Robert's directions on creating an icon on my
> desktop which opens full working version of Write, but only in a window. However following your
> suggestion of using alt enter and it expanded immediately to full screen. When I try to open
> xywrite in a Dos icon that is set to full screen, it does not finish loading. If you look at my
> prior email, sent before I got your solution, if I open in a shortcut set to full screen, xy does
> not finish loading but works in a limited sense. If I set it to a window than it opens beautifully
> and everything in xy works fine but in a window. However when I follow your suggestion of alt enter
> it expands to full screen and works beautifully.
>
> Thanks again to you for your suggestion which cured my problems and your initial suggestion about
> using an icon to start xy and to Robert for his directions in the archives.
>
> Does anyone know why sometimes I get emails before they appear on the archives and other times I
> receive emails long after they appeared in the archives.
>
>  avromf@xxxxxxxxmailto:avromf@xxxxxxxx or af413@xxxxxxxxmailto:af413@xxxxxxxx



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Patricia M. Godfrey
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