Scroll up in DOS window?

[A.M. Pond]

I've written a batch file which runs in a DOS window. When it's finished, I
can see only the last few lines in thew window, and would like to scroll up
to see if all the steps were completed, or what problems might have
occurred.

How do I scroll up in a "finished" DOS window?

[Tom Lavedas]

Unless you are in NT/2000 or have a third party utility for Win 95/98,
you don't. Sorry, I don't have a recommendation.

Some simple workaround/helps for Win 9x:

Use the line

Mode co80,50

early in your procedure to enlarge the display to 50 lines (or
permanently alter your Dosprompt.pif shortcut to open in 50 line
mode.

If it's just for debugging, add PAUSE statements in appropriate
locations in the procedure or open a DOS session and launch the
procedure with something like ...

%comspec% prn /e:2048 /c d:\some\place\mybatch parameters

or

%comspec% /e:2048 /c d:\some\place\mybatch parameters > out.txt

The first approach will send all output to the printer, while the second
will not catch error messages - just normal output.

There's probably more, but that's about enough for now.

Tom Lavedas
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[laura fairhead]

In article <399D6E8D...@pressroom.com>,

So that should be scroll DOWN then.

Winblows does not keep a scroll buffer for a DOS box
so you can't do it from the GUI.

Additionally to what Tom has mentionned here you should
also be able to find a scroll-back buffer for DOS hanging
around.

Couldn't tell you where myself because I don't generally
use 3rd party stuff .... Search simtelnet or something,
Keywords: "scrolling" "DOS" "TSR"

Good luck,

L

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laura fairhead wrote:
>
>
> Additionally to what Tom has mentionned here you should
> also be able to find a scroll-back buffer for DOS hanging
> around.
>
> Couldn't tell you where myself because I don't generally
> use 3rd party stuff .... Search simtelnet or something,
> Keywords: "scrolling" "DOS" "TSR"
>
> Good luck,

There is one available here:
http://bigfoot.com/~batfiles/download/scrn_utl.zip
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