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Answer» How can I get a full screen dos shell to display in 4x3 aspect ratio - right now when I open a dos shell in xp and switch to full screen, it's stretched too wide and only the top half of the screen is usable. Is there a way to make the dos shell fixed permanently at a 4x3 ratio? Quote from: nitsudm on May 24, 2009, 05:23:44 PM How can I get a full screen dos shell to display in 4x3 aspect ratio - right now when I open a dos shell in xp and switch to full screen, it's stretched too wide and only the top half of the screen is usable. Is there a way to make the dos shell fixed permanently at a 4x3 ratio? Umm...Did you create a shortcut to CMD and change how it opens? That might do the trick...it is a shortcut to cmd and I have only changed it to full screen through properties. the ENTIRE screen goes black with the prompt at the top but only the top half is usable - can I somehow get the dos shell to Stretch down to fill the entire screen?Quote from: nitsudm on May 24, 2009, 05:28:19 PM it is a shortcut to cmd and I have only changed it to full screen through properties. the entire screen goes black with the prompt at the top but only the top half is usable - can I somehow get the dos shell to Stretch down to fill the entire screen? Are you sure you selected FULL SCREEN in the options, and not Maximised?Pretty self explainable: I have selected full screen - not max min any other option - let me start over. The actual dos prompt is full screen, however when I open a dos program set to the RESOLUTION 80x25 through the program itself it is stretched across the screen, which I guess is correct considering the resolution is 80x25. I would like the dos shell to force dos apps to be stretched full screen.- BatchFileBasics: That changes the size of the windowed dos shell but not apps ran within the dos shell - thanks for your responsesthe application has to be written to use 80x50 or 80x49 if you want it to "EXPAND". for example edit can be invoked with a "/h" switch to start in 50 column mode.use mode.com to change console size: mode/? for help eg: mode con cols=140 lines=80Well, I found that as "Batchfilesbasics" put it - force "window" and "buffer size" to 85x25 and set to full screen seems to force the app to stretch (don't know why it wasn't doing that from the get go) But it is now...So thank you for that info - Reno - I will PLAY around with mode.com and see if I can't get a more concrete fix - thank you.to get a 80x25 display with MODE use the line: CODE: [Select]mode con:lines=25 I was going to say mode co80 but that doesn't work anymore.I tried Code: [Select]mode con:lines=25 and got desirable results, so I changed it to 50 lines just to see if it was really doing anything and the screen looked totally screwed up - so changed it back to 25 and it looked great. It will be nice to have this in my batch file just to remind the computer EVERY time I run this app. Thanks a lot

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How can I get a full screen dos shell to display in 4x3 aspect ratio - right now when I open a dos shell in xp and switch to full screen, it's stretched too wide and only the top half of the screen is usable. Is there a way to make the dos shell fixed permanently at a 4x3 ratio? Quote from: nitsudm on May 24, 2009, 05:23:44 PM

How can I get a full screen dos shell to display in 4x3 aspect ratio - right now when I open a dos shell in xp and switch to full screen, it's stretched too wide and only the top half of the screen is usable. Is there a way to make the dos shell fixed permanently at a 4x3 ratio?

Umm...Did you create a shortcut to CMD and change how it opens? That might do the trick...it is a shortcut to cmd and I have only changed it to full screen through properties. the ENTIRE screen goes black with the prompt at the top but only the top half is usable - can I somehow get the dos shell to Stretch down to fill the entire screen?Quote from: nitsudm on May 24, 2009, 05:28:19 PM

it is a shortcut to cmd and I have only changed it to full screen through properties. the entire screen goes black with the prompt at the top but only the top half is usable - can I somehow get the dos shell to Stretch down to fill the entire screen?

Are you sure you selected FULL SCREEN in the options, and not Maximised?Pretty self explainable:

I have selected full screen - not max min any other option
- let me start over.

The actual dos prompt is full screen, however when I open a dos program set to the RESOLUTION 80x25 through the program itself it is stretched across the screen, which I guess is correct considering the resolution is 80x25. I would like the dos shell to force dos apps to be stretched full screen.- BatchFileBasics:

That changes the size of the windowed dos shell but not apps ran within the dos shell - thanks for your responsesthe application has to be written to use 80x50 or 80x49 if you want it to "EXPAND".

for example edit can be invoked with a "/h" switch to start in 50 column mode.use mode.com to change console size:
mode/? for help

eg:
mode con cols=140 lines=80Well, I found that as "Batchfilesbasics" put it - force "window" and "buffer size" to 85x25 and set to full screen seems to force the app to stretch (don't know why it wasn't doing that from the get go) But it is now...So thank you for that info - Reno - I will PLAY around with mode.com and see if I can't get a more concrete fix - thank you.to get a 80x25 display with MODE use the line:

CODE: [Select]mode con:lines=25

I was going to say mode co80 but that doesn't work anymore.I tried Code: [Select]mode con:lines=25 and got desirable results, so I changed it to 50 lines just to see if it was really doing anything and the screen looked totally screwed up - so changed it back to 25 and it looked great. It will be nice to have this in my batch file just to remind the computer EVERY time I run this app. Thanks a lot

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