[Tutor] How to get Win XP command prompt to open at C:\Python23> (original) (raw)

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Sat Jul 24 10:04:48 CEST 2004

Tim Peters wrote at 23:16 7/23/2004:

What, exactly, do you do to open a DOS box ("command prompt window")? There are 100 ways to do everything on Windows, and answers depend on the specifics of the ways you've stumbled into.

I had a shortcut key in a folder on my start menu with a shortcut key set.

For example, I put a cmd.exe shortcut icon on my desktop, and if you did too then it's easy: right-click on the icon, select Properties, go to the Shortcut tab, type C:\Python23 in the "Start in:" box, click Apply, then click OK. From then on that shortcut icon will cd to C:\Python23 all by itself when you double-click it. You can also adjust the size of the window, font, and number of lines of scrollback history this way.

Thank you! Thank you! Works like a charm. But I'm curious again. How do you make those other adjustments?

Dick Moores

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