Re: DOS window.

From: Bill (wherrera_at_lynxview.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: 31 Oct 2003 08:30:43 -0800

"Richard S Beckett" <spikeywan@bigfoot.com.delete.this.bit> wrote in message news:<bnom3o$kqs$1@newshost.mot.com>...
> 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,
> and give me the dos window I'm used to, or is this a bad idea?
>
> Are there any better ways around this?
>

Several code editors will spawn a scrolling command line interface,
basically command.com with pipes to an editor page. I think maybe
there is an emacs port to win95 that does this but am not sure about
that--I think I saw this years ago.