DOS Prompt advice please

[Stu038]

Does anyone know whether it's possible to get scroll bars on the side of a 98fe DOS prompt?

I know that increasing the font size results in one across the bottom of the screen, but that doesn't help me

I've found out that allegedly the cmd function in 2K and XP does it, if that's the case would I be able to transplant it into the older OS?

Thanks in expectation

Stu

[The_real_dj]

Sorry mate but as far as i know its not possible in windows 98
What do you need it for?? It might be possible to do somthing else to fix your problem

Originally Posted by The_real_dj

Sorry mate but as far as i know its not possible in windows 98
What do you need it for?? It might be possible to do somthing else to fix your problem

for example, if the info you want is scrolling off the page, before you can read it, then use the /p switch

e.g. dir c:\ /p will display the list one page at a time, with a 'press any key to continue' prompt.

[Stu038]

Thanks for the responses folks.

Some times I do consecutive tracerts, pings etc and it would be a lot easier to be able to scroll back up to look at previous results than cutting and pasteing or having multiple prompts open.

Just gonna have to do it all the hard way I suppose.

Thanks again

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by Stu038

Does anyone know whether it's possible to get scroll bars on the side of a 98fe DOS prompt?

If what you are asking is actually "Can I increase the number of lines in the command prompt window?", then the answer is yes.

For older versions of Windows, type the command:

mode co80,50

For newer versions of Windows, type the command:

mode con,lines=50

I've found out that allegedly the cmd function in 2K and XP does it, if that's the case would I be able to transplant it into the older OS?

No, you can't.

[Lew]

It's been a while since I used Win98, but if you right-click the title bar and select 'Properties' do you get this tab in the properties dialog?



If you do, you can alter the screen buffer settings which should do what you want.

[Indians]

I'm sure you can redirect to a printer or to a file, can't remember how exactly, think it's the | (pipe) symbol,............goes away to dust off DOS Manual......

[Indians]

Got it, if you do the command followed by > then a filename the output of the command is written to the file specified.

i.e. DIR>Test.txt at a DOS prompt will result in a Directory listing and a new Test.txt file with the directory listing in it.

Might be easier for you to do this then review results at leisure.

(I'm still sure you can use the | symbol as well, ....keeps looking...)

[Stu038]

Thanks for the replies folks.

Mimizukuw No Lew, I don't get that properties box the one I get is a lot more limited and really only allows me to set the initial amount of lines.

After having played for a while, I think Im gonna have to go with a combination of Robin's and Indians suggestions, iniatlly set up the prompt to open at say 25 lines, nice and readable, expand it for specifics and then print the results to file when I'm gonna run out of lines.

My problem is that I'm too impatient and lazy