ne1 know dos?

i want to make my dos window full screen via a command. for example, i know you can manually set the properties of a shortcut to launch it full screen, or you can press alt+enter while viewing the screen to make it full.. but what can i type at the prompt line, to make it full screen?

is it possible?

PS i'm trying:which should work? ..but doesn't. at least not on this windows 2000 environment.

Try:

yea it makes it bigger, but not full screen.. is there a way to change font size via the prompt? maybe i could just make the text really big and force it to blow up full screen?

i'm lost..

alright i found this:i guess it will do..

Hi Notepad.

Create a shortcut on windows desktop (right-click on your desktop then select new) . In this shortcut put your command you want to run and choose `run maximized`. On the `screen` tab of this shortcut choose `Useage` - `full screen`. Another nice option is `Close on exit` on the `Program` Tab.
Now, when you want to run this just Enter the shortcut name on a command line or `CLICK` the shortcut.

Hope this helps.

I just tested this on Windows ME and all works fine

P.S. There is a way of running this short cut in a batch file but for the life of me I can t remember the official prefix of a shortcut.
If your shourtcut was `myshortcut` and
if the file type prefix is `sct` then just add this line to your batch file.
c:windowsmyshortcust.sct
and this will run it for you.

i know i can set the properties, but what i was trying to do is make a batch file that i could e-mail to you, for example.. and when you opened it, it would run full screen without you having to edit anything.

Used to be if you had a PIF file with the same name as the batch file, in the same folder, Windows would automatically use the settings from the PIF...Unfortunately I don't remember how to make PIF's.

Alternatively, you should be able to create the batch file, then create a shortcut to it, make sure the shortcut's properties use relative paths and have the settings you want...so that when you distribute, have people run the shortcut instead of the batch...would that work for you?