From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Alkoff Subject: Re: Setting up new dosemu 1.3.3 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:02:12 -0500 Message-ID: <443C5FA4.1080705@mindspring.com> References: <443A9041.4080104@mindspring.com> <200604102225.44620.dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de> <443ACAD5.2090907@mindspring.com> <443BE570.60005@sbcglobal.net> <443C29DB.3000504@mindspring.com> <20060412013414.GB13402@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060412013414.GB13402@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Karl." Cc: dosemu Karl. wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:12:43PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote: >> The 80x25 seems to be a default - don't know it it can be changed or >> not but 80x25 works well for me. > > You can change it within dosemu using the dos 'mode' command (perhaps > add it to your autoexec.bat) > > "mode co80,50" gets you colour, 80 columns, 50 rows. > number of rows can be 25, 28, 43, or 50 > > "mode /?" gets you help on other options > > A lot of software makes assumptions and only uses half the screen, but > there's a lot of software which works properly as well. I just don't > feel right if my dos box is not 50 rows :-) > > Karl. Thanks for the tip on mode Karl. I had forgotten how handy that was in the good old DOS days. Do you know any way of changing the really ugly white on black background? What does 'codepage' mean wrt mode? Are these fonts or characters like Cyrillic? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux