Windows 11 console window

[Scott Coffey]

I have an older Clipper/xHarbour app that I moved to a Windows 11 PC.  It seems that there is no longer a way to control the windows size via the program's shortcut.  It now shows up in a window that's larger than required/desired, and attempting to resize the window makes the text garbled.  Is there a way to overcome this?

TIA

[cod...@outlook.com]

Try with this:

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-default-terminal-application-in-windows-11.3410/ 

Use Windows Console Host.

Regards,

Simo.

[José M. C. Quintas]

on source code:

SetMode(25,80)

Or the size you want.

José M. C. Quintas

Em 09/05/2025 10:09, Scott Coffey escreveu:

I have an older Clipper/xHarbour app that I moved to a Windows 11 PC.  It seems that there is no longer a way to control the windows size via the program's shortcut.  It now shows up in a window that's larger than required/desired, and attempting to resize the window makes the text garbled.  Is there a way to overcome this?

TIA

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[AW]

Windows 11 default setting prefers Windows Console wc.exe instead of cmd.exe.
And with wc.exe SetMode(25,80) no longer works.

I use a workaround inspired from following blog: 

"How to force a .bat to run in a legacy screen environment of cmd in Windows 11 instead the new Windows Terminal"
https://medium.com/@jsimian3525/how-to-force-a-bat-1990922cdf13

I start my harbour exe from a bat-file with following lines at beginning:

set id=%random%
title %id%
tasklist.exe /v /fo csv /FI "ImageName eq cmd.exe" | findstr "%id%"
if %errorlevel% == 1 start conhost.exe "%~f0" & GOTO :EOF