RE: WinXp

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

At least on Windows NT4, open a command prompt and then key alt-enter to get
a full-screen DOS or DOS-emulation window. This also works with a DOS
program such as XY4. Another alt-enter toggles back to a smaller window.

If these other Windows versions are variants of NT4 I should think this
should work there as well, but I don't have a system to try it on.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Norman [SMTP:michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:17 AM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	WinXp
>
> Went to our campus computer store yesterday and tried to get to
> full-screen
> DOS on XP and got only so far as a DOS box (emulation). None of the sales
> people there (all young) could figure out how to get to full-screen DOS.
> Moreover they could not understand why anyone would want to (another
> issue,
> for sure). What would be enormously helpful here for the many of us who
> are
> contemplating new machines (desktop and laptop) would be some sort of
> short, impromptu help file that explains how to A: Get to full DOS screens
>
> or full-screen emulations (not in a window) in WinXP, WinME, Win 2000, and
>
> how to install XyDos on each if such an installation presents special
> problems.
>
> I know the kind folks who maintain the Xywweb site are very busy, but if
> this information can be gathered without much fuss, it would be a great
> addition to that site. Clearly hardware imbroglios (3/4 laptop
> screens...screen fonts...printers that won't print from XyDos) are major
> issues for us.
>
> Michael Norman