Adding scroll bars to command window

I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command window to
add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from the ms-dos prompt
and examine its entire output. I would like to be able to examine the output
of the command, but right now it just scrolls off the screen leaving only as
many lines as fit on the screen. I would appreciate any assistance with this.

dos does not scroll back
there are workarounds
many accept /p and output one screenpage at a time till a key is pressed
program textfile.txt directs the output of well behaved dos programs to a
text file that can be read with notepad(or replacement) not all are well
behaved

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"alfrodsal" wrote in message
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I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command window to
add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from the ms-dos
prompt
and examine its entire output. I would like to be able to examine the
output
of the command, but right now it just scrolls off the screen leaving only
as
many lines as fit on the screen. I would appreciate any assistance with
this.

=?Utf-8?B?YWxmcm9kc2Fs?= wrote:

I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command
window to add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from
the ms-dos prompt and examine its entire output. I would like to be
able to examine the output of the command, but right now it just
scrolls off the screen leaving only as many lines as fit on the
screen. I would appreciate any assistance with this.

The standard dos trick for this is

program | moreenter

The output of program is redirected to the program more, which buffers it,
and show it screen by screen or line by line.

"alfrodsal" wrote in message
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I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command window to
add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from the ms-dos
prompt
and examine its entire output. I would like to be able to examine the
output
of the command, but right now it just scrolls off the screen leaving only
as
many lines as fit on the screen. I would appreciate any assistance with
this.

1. Command parameter /P causes output
displays to show one screen at a time, requiring
keyboard input before the next screenful displays.
Command MORE may be similar.
2. The MS-DOS pipe function FILENAME.TXT
writes output to an ASCII file thus named.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

alfrodsal wrote:
| I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command
| window to add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from
| the ms-dos prompt and examine its entire output. I would like to be
| able to examine the output of the command, but right now it just
| scrolls off the screen leaving only as many lines as fit on the
| screen. I would appreciate any assistance with this.

You can get a scroll bar on the right of a Windows DOS box, but it is
imperfect. I get one, anyhow, set this way...

(a) "START button, Programs, MS-DOS Prompt"
Don't click it. R-Clk it, & select "Properties".

(b) At the Screen tab, select "50 lines".

(c) At the Font tab, I am set at "13 x 22". Other settings are possible,
but some will result in an unreadable DOS screen.

I think that's what does it. So, you still cannot scroll back beyond
that number. So, the methods the others have said are better: Use /p
when possible, pipe it to MORE, or send it to a file.

On Thu, 31 May 2007 16:58:01 -0700, alfrodsal
put finger to keyboard and
composed:

I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command window to
add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from the ms-dos prompt
and examine its entire output. I would like to be able to examine the output
of the command, but right now it just scrolls off the screen leaving only as
many lines as fit on the screen. I would appreciate any assistance with this.

In addition to the other suggestions, you may want to configure the
window for 50 lines rather than 25. You can do this during an existing
DOS session by typing ...

mode co80,50

.... otherwise you can change the properties of the MS-DOS Prompt
shortcut as described by PCR.

Use Alt-Enter to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.

- Franc Zabkar
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Franc Zabkar wrote:
| On Thu, 31 May 2007 16:58:01 -0700, alfrodsal
| put finger to keyboard and
| composed:
|
|I am running Windows 98 SE. I cannot seem to configure a command
|window to add scroll bars that would allow me to run a command from
|the ms-dos prompt and examine its entire output. I would like to be
|able to examine the output of the command, but right now it just
|scrolls off the screen leaving only as many lines as fit on the
|screen. I would appreciate any assistance with this.
|
| In addition to the other suggestions, you may want to configure the
| window for 50 lines rather than 25. You can do this during an existing
| DOS session by typing ...
|
| mode co80,50

Right. I have something like that in DOSStart.bat...
mode con lines=50

It will set a True DOS screen to fifty lines, yea, after a Restart to
MS-DOS Mode.

| ... otherwise you can change the properties of the MS-DOS Prompt
| shortcut as described by PCR.
|
| Use Alt-Enter to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.
|
| - Franc Zabkar
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| Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

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