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- SIZE.EXE
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- The purpose of this program is to allow the user of IBM's OS/2
- ver 1.1 to control the size of the Presentation Manager windows after clicking
- on the "maximixe" icon on the VGA display.
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- Normally, one can resize the normal size windows in a variety of
- ways, but the PM's "maximized" windows are not adjustable. What is more,
- they are not full screen, and may not be acceptable for all users in the
- default size.
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- A limited degree of control is provided by the mode.com utility,
- because the window sessions will respond to the line parameters passed to
- that utility. But mode.com will only accept two line size parameters for
- the VGA: 25 and 50.
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- Size.exe provides a greater degree of control for the VGA screen,
- because it will accept any line size, from 1 - 99. Of course, it is only
- practical to use values from 10 to 55. In addition, size.exe is much
- smaller and faster executing than mode.com.
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- The syntax is
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- size <character_rows>
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- where character_rows can be an iteger from 10 - 55.
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- For example,
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- size 25 ; default screen size with large font
- size 29 ; full screen with large font
- size 52 ; full screen with small font
- size 25 ; half screen with small font
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- These examples are what fits my monitor; other monitors may differ.
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- Also, I find that this technique is more successful for the windowed
- OS/2 sessions than for the full screen OS/2 sessions (which are actually run
- under a separate character mode shell); the character based shell responds
- to 25 and 50 only.
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- Harve Schiffman
- Compuserve 72261,347
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