- May
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The commands MKSC, SCREENRES and SCRNSAVER can either provide a report, or create/modify links or conditions. However, each command's reporting syntax is very different from its creation/modification syntax. It would be useful if for each command a reporting format could be made available that can be used (parsed) for creation / modification. What I would love to see is an equivalent of the /R option of ALIAS, FUNCTION and SET - this would be very useful for en block editing when migrating to a new platform, or reorganizing your directory hierarchy, or connecting a different monitor.
Corollaries:
1/ SCREENRES when just reporting current mode should have an option to report display mode only (no hardware data).
2/ SCREENRES and SCRNSAVER should have the /F:fields option of MKSC in reporting mode.
Curiosity:
My laptop is old enough to still have a docking station (before manufacturers were to cheap to provide a connector), which has inter alia a monitor with higher resolution than the internal monitor. When the laptop is open and the internal monitor active, MKSC /L reports the available modes of the internal monitor (even when the external one is also active); when closed, the external monitor, but in either case it reports the active monitor as number 0; hardware report for either is "Plug and Play Monitor". When the internal one is active, there does not seem to be a means of directly accessing the external one. BTW, I do not want the two monitors to represent different areas of a larger screen.
Corollaries:
1/ SCREENRES when just reporting current mode should have an option to report display mode only (no hardware data).
2/ SCREENRES and SCRNSAVER should have the /F:fields option of MKSC in reporting mode.
Curiosity:
My laptop is old enough to still have a docking station (before manufacturers were to cheap to provide a connector), which has inter alia a monitor with higher resolution than the internal monitor. When the laptop is open and the internal monitor active, MKSC /L reports the available modes of the internal monitor (even when the external one is also active); when closed, the external monitor, but in either case it reports the active monitor as number 0; hardware report for either is "Plug and Play Monitor". When the internal one is active, there does not seem to be a means of directly accessing the external one. BTW, I do not want the two monitors to represent different areas of a larger screen.
