Hey hows things,

I am a total newbie, don't know much about dos. I just started working in a computer shop and a fella has BOUGHT two laptops off of us and got me to install a dos program for bar stock sort of a thing. So I got all installed and put the .bat icon on the desktop to open it up and modified the properties to open in full screen with the 80/25 settings so the text within the program also use the full screen. Everything worked a TREAT on the new laptops but he gave me an old dell laptop running windows 98 to reinstall windows on and the program. I have the program working and using the full screen but the text within the program stays small and will not use the full screen unless I leave it for about 20-30 minutes till the screen goes black as if it's a screensaver. then when I move the MOUSE in order to bring the screen back up the text is now using the full screen. Sorry that's a lot too take in but can anyone understand why it's not using the full screen for the text from the start? Really need to get this sorted.

Thanks for the help,

MarcusSelect properties from the .bat files or PROGRAMS shortcut. Select the font tab and adjust to the desired size. Then select the screen tab and check the box to restore settings on startup.nope still comes up small when i restart the machine. Once i leave it for the 20 mins or so and it gets big it will stay big until the machine is restarted even if i keep opening and closing the program. Cannot figure it out at all.I just went into the power options and changed the screen to turn off after 1 minute so if i leave it for a minute the screen turns off and then i touch the mousepad and it comes back in the full screen mode.What happens if you insert cls as the first COMMAND in the .bat file?Try experimenting with the MODE command. Like maybe:
mode con cols=80