>>>>I have a shortcut on my NT4SP6 desktop that points to a DOS app. The window is rather small so I want to increase the font size for the application, but the shortcut ignores the settings and uses the default font.
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>>>You need to modify the default font size for the CLI that's being launched; you can do that either through the application's PIF, or by modifying the _DEFAULT.PIF that serves as the master template for all DOS VDM sessions.
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>>Momentarily the apps seems to start with a different font since there is a vertical scrollbar but then the application (in clipper) seems to resize the dos window to to the default size.
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>>Further info... I have modified _default.pif in c:\winnt and it had no effect, but if I open up a dos window (without the app) it works fine and repects the font setting. Also if I then run the dos app from this command prompt it respects the new font setting. Still the shortcut on my desktop is using the old default.
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>Check to see if there's a stray .PIF floating around on your Windows search path that's being hit before the PIF SpecialFolder.

Found and couple and deleted them. Didn't help. Here is an interesting bit of info. If I tell the app to start full screen and then hit alt-enter to windowize it it uses the settings that I specified. But removing the full screen setting causes the app to once again ignore the specific font settings.