Windows 2000 Re: "full-screen" DOS window doesn't fill screen

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ynotssor wrote:
> I have an old DOS program that runs in a cmd.exe window which can be made to
> use the full screen with Alt-Enter. This works properly on another win200
> machine, but on a Toshiba laptop the full screen mode fills the width but
> NOT the height of the screen.
>
> I've made sure that the Properties and the Console Windows Properties of the
> C:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe window are the same on both machines, using Raster
> Fonts 8x12 and the same Layout, Screen Buffer 80x420 and Window Size 80x25.
>
> Still, the fullscreen mode on the laptop doesn't fill the vertical of the
> screen for any cmd.exe application, even just a command prompt.
>
> What am I mssing here, please?
>
>
In the dark ages I had one at wotk which had a FN key
function to toggle just that "DOS" screen property.
So check out your function keys.
 
In news:484b1a9d$0$6005$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl,
Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnlll> typed:

> In the dark ages I had one at wotk which had a FN key
> function to toggle just that "DOS" screen property.
> So check out your function keys.

Thank you, that seems to make the most sense, but trying all the various FN
keys doesn't resolve the problem. I'll try to find the user's manual online
somewhere and refer to that. The manufacturer's web site seems terribly
convoluted.
 
"ynotssor" <ynotssor@example.com> wrote in message
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> In news:484b1a9d$0$6005$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl,
> Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnlll> typed:
>
> > In the dark ages I had one at wotk which had a FN key
> > function to toggle just that "DOS" screen property.
> > So check out your function keys.
>
> Thank you, that seems to make the most sense, but trying all the various FN
> keys doesn't resolve the problem. I'll try to find the user's manual online
> somewhere and refer to that. The manufacturer's web site seems terribly
> convoluted.

For IBM machines I have had in the past, there's a BIOS
setting named "Screen Expansion" that handles this issue.
Perhaps you have the same or similar.

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>
>
 
In news:eWGO78YyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
V Green <vanceg@nowhere.net> typed:

> For IBM machines I have had in the past, there's a BIOS
> setting named "Screen Expansion" that handles this issue.
> Perhaps you have the same or similar.

Fabulous, thank you. The BIOS setting required was "LCD Display Stretch =
Enabled".
 
"ynotssor" <ynotssor@example.com> wrote in message
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> In news:eWGO78YyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
> V Green <vanceg@nowhere.net> typed:
>
> > For IBM machines I have had in the past, there's a BIOS
> > setting named "Screen Expansion" that handles this issue.
> > Perhaps you have the same or similar.
>
> Fabulous, thank you. The BIOS setting required was "LCD Display Stretch =
> Enabled".

You're welcome.

I knew I had seen that somewhere...'twas a good
test for my 50 year old brain to remember where.

Did enabling it have any other (adverse) effects on the
normal desktop, etc.?

>
>
>
>
 
In news:%23S9dEIpyIHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
V Green <vanceg@nowhere.net> typed:

>>> For IBM machines I have had in the past, there's a BIOS
>>> setting named "Screen Expansion" that handles this issue.
>>> Perhaps you have the same or similar.
>>
>> Fabulous, thank you. The BIOS setting required was "LCD Display
>> Stretch = Enabled".
>
> You're welcome.
>
> I knew I had seen that somewhere...'twas a good
> test for my 50 year old brain to remember where.
>
> Did enabling it have any other (adverse) effects on the
> normal desktop, etc.?

None whatsoever. It was exactly what was needed.
 
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