Re: DOS window.
From: Malcolm Dew-Jones (yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca)
Date: 10/29/03
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Date: 29 Oct 2003 09:09:09 -0800
Richard S Beckett (spikeywan@bigfoot.com.delete.this.bit) wrote:
: Guys,
: I've been writing perl scripts at work on a w2k machine, but as I'm now
: doing a personal project, I thought I'd better do it at home.
: For various reasons, I'm still running w98 at home, and have discovered that
: the w98 dos window is particularly crap, as I can't specify a buffer size.
: If I put cmd.exe from my w2k machine onto the w98 machine, will it run OK,
no
: and give me the dos window I'm used to, or is this a bad idea?
fine idea, it just won't work
: Are there any better ways around this?
Might I suggest linux? You don't have to reformat your hard drive if you
get an install that uses the dos format.
You know of course that you can control the number of lines in the
window, I think you can get at least 55 lines, and I know for 100%
certainty you can get 43 cause that's ega mode.
People used to use emacs as a programming front end to solve the
limitations of terminals, so perhaps emacs could do the same for you.
I wonder if any of the various command.com replacements (4dos is one
example) provide their own improvements on the dos box window.
Otherwise, pipe all output into temporary files and use your favourite
editor to examine the output.
I often use notepad as a "scratch pad" for my input on windows. I format
more complex commands in a notepad window (always saved in a file called
notes.txt in the directory of the project) and then cut and paste the
commands to run them. The file ends up being a good document of my test
cases, so I gain something even though the use of the file is gludgy.
$0.2
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