Good point! David
David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ELOEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:44 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Getting R:BASE for DOS to run full screen on W2K > David, > > I think the second path command is of no use, as all the batch (in Win2k,win > XP) run in a separate DOS box and after termination you return to system's > Path which remains intact > > Polychronis > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David M. > Blocker > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 4:47 PM > To: RBG7-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Getting R:BASE for DOS to run full screen on W2K > > > I agree - after trying many solutions, this one is the most reliable. Once > set up, change to Full Screen under Options tab. > > Here's the batch I use to use R:Base 6.5++ for DOS on my XP machine. > > PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\RBTI\RBDOS65;C:\PKZIP;C:\Program > Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;"C:\Program Files\PKWARE\PKZIPC\" > > RBASE65 -R > > PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program > Files\Common Files\Adaptec > Shared\System;C:\RBTI\RBWIN65;C:\RBTI\RSCOPE65;C:\PKZIP;C:\Program > Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;"C:\Program Files\PKWARE\PKZIPC\" > EXIT > > Notice the only change is to replace the default C:\RBTI\RBWIN65 with > C:\RBTI\RBDOS65 > > David Blocker > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 781-784-1919 > Fax: 781-784-1860 > Cell: 339-206-0261 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: R. Scott Stanfield > To: RBG7-L Mailing List > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:57 AM > Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Getting R:BASE for DOS to run full screen on W2K > > > I have just recently installed DOS 6.5++ on a few Win2000 machines. I would > suggest running R:Base from a batch file where you set your paths and on the > batch file icon on the desktop set the screen to Full Screen (with the right > click properties). R:Base for Dos seems to have minor differences running > on Win2000 than WinME or Win98. I have always opted not to use Win2000 > because of the printer redirection on a network (LPT1) in WinME or 98. Many > of my programs output to LPT1 and LPT1 might be a different printer > depending on the workstation. I then found the net use command that works > really well for LPT1, LP2, or LPT3 redirection. You can put it in the > autoexec.bat file and is as follows: net use lpt1: \\computername\sharename > . > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Engwer > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:46 PM > To: RBG7-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBG7-L] - Getting R:BASE for DOS to run full screen on W2K > > > I know that this question has been answered before but I can't find the > answer via search. I have a need to run a DOS DB for a short time under Win > 2000 and I cannot get it to run full screen. I tried changing the font in > the shortcut but it did not resolve the problem. > > How do I get it to display full screen? > > Thanks > John >
