How to make dos window scrollable under win98?

Question

Hi, I am using win98, every time when I run my GUI application, whenever I got bunch of error message that can not be displayed in one window, I will miss the original error information. Can anyone tell me how to make my dos window scrollable so that I can view all error message.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I don't think that you can do this. There is another way, however: When java throws an exception, if it is not caught in your program, it is sent to the standard error, which is the console. You can simply reset this to be a file, so you can read this to get all the error info. Try using the following code in your main method:
  public static void main(String[] arg) {
    try {
      System.setErr(new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(new File("Errors"))));
      //instantiate your main class here
      MyClass mc=new MyClass(); //or whatever
    } catch (Exception _ex) {     
      System.out.println("An error occurred"); //exception get sent to standard error automatically, so there
                              //is no real need to catch this exception. However, I use it to display
                              //a message on the console to let me know an error has occurred.
      System.err.println(_ex.getMessage()); //and finally, print the exception to file
      _ex.printStackTrace();
  }