"MODE" command-line command, screen status

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

MODE/? says MODE <device> [/STATUS]. Is my screen a device? Then what must
I enter to see/modify its status?

Regards

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:04:48 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon

Post by Jean-Pierre Coulon
MODE/? says MODE <device> [/STATUS]. Is my screen a device? Then what must
I enter to see/modify its status?

Gosh, that takes me back...

Following devices are allowed

PRN, CON, COMx and LPTx, (where x is a number specific to a
particular port)

CON is your screen, where you can set the display mode (lines and
columns of text, eg MODE 40 for 40 characters per line of text), set
codepages (MODE Con cp=xxx), or shift the text a bit to the left or
right (MODE R or MODE L)

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

Post by Spalls Hurgenson
Following devices are allowed
PRN, CON, COMx and LPTx, (where x is a number specific to a particular
port)

Thanks. Then MODE is not for my problem with DOS graphics.

Jean-Pierre Coulon (here "cacas.pam" is what others call "nospam")

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 21:47:32 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon

Post by Jean-Pierre Coulon

Post by Spalls Hurgenson
Following devices are allowed
PRN, CON, COMx and LPTx, (where x is a number specific to a particular
port)

Thanks. Then MODE is not for my problem with DOS graphics.

DOS is usually not associated with graphics (although with ansi.sys
you could do some fun things, like colored menus, oooh!) It was pretty
much text-mode only. Apps that used graphics pretty much had to write
their own graphics routines.