Re: DOS Windos vs. Full screen, ...and Fonts

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 When I speak about "full screen," I mean exactly what Robert
 means by "VGA Full Screen font alternatives. No DOS box, no
 window -- just Full Screen,...." If you go to the DOS box in
 whatever version of Windows you happen to be using, and then
 press Alt+Enter, and before you load any programme, and that
 includes XY4, you will see a screen that looks like the screen
 we all saw when we operated only with the DOS operating system
 on the old 8088s, except for the first two lines below. This
 is a screen containing the following information, when you go
 full screen, and only this:

 Microsoft(R) Windows 95
  (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1995.

 C:\WINDOWS>

 After you have entered a command and it has been executed, you
 will see only the C:\

 This is a full screen, as I understand full screen. At the C>
 you can enter any of the DOS commands. Now, what I am saying
 (and I think that this is what Robert is saying as well, and if
 he isn't, then I am sure I will hear from him) is that you can
 change the font at this level, and the change will apply to all
 DOS programmes you load after you have changed fonts. Should
 you EXIT DOS for Windows OS, you will lose the font change, and
 you will have to reload the font when you return to DOS full
 screen. However, if you press Alt+Enter to open a DOS Window,
 while in DOS full screen, you will not take the DOS full screen
 font along with you into the DOS window, but it will still be
 available to you should you return to full screen, as long as you
 have not exited to Windows in the interim. Sorry for the con-
 voluted explanation, but I think I am right.

 What remains to be resolved, and this is a completely different
 matter, as Robert explained earlier, is whether the font in the
 DOS window can be changed in Windows XP. And if it can--and this
 is a problem for me perhaps more than it is for others--can it be
 changed for the DOS window font from Windows95?, a font that I (
 others may disagree, of course) find particularly easy on the eyes.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Michael Norman wrote:
>
> First, Robert's post [*VGA Full Screen Fonts for XyWrite*]is a blessing.
> Indeed, screens and printers are (were) our betes noirs. I want to read
> that post again, try some of the fonts and report back. But the above needs
> clarification. Microsoft logo and C prompt? What OS are you using? Full
> screen is just that -- full, nothing, no logo, no header, no task bar --
> just XyDos running as it did in old DOS -- yes?
>
> Michael Norman
>
>