SAMPLE command and resulting output   | Comments about the output

  MODE LPT1:132,6			This command instructs the
					printer connected to printer
					port #1 to print 132 character
					lines with 6 lines per inch.

  MODE COM1:96,N,8,1			This command instructs DOS to
					prepare the COM1 communications 
					port for 9600 baud communications,
					with no parity checking, 8-bit
					characters, and 1 stop bit.

  MODE LPT3:80,8			Here we are setting the printer
					on port #3 to an 80 character
					page width and 8 lines per inch.

  MODE 80,R,T				This example says to display 80 
					characters per line, shifted one 
					column right, with a test pattern.
LPT2:,,P...Resident portion of MODE installed	This was the first use of MODE,
						so it printed an initialization
						message.

  MODE CON CP PREP= (437,,850) \DOS\EGA.CPI This example says the first code
					page is 437, the second code page will
					remain whatever it was on the previous
					MODE PREP command for the CONsole
					device, and the third code page will 
					be 850. The code pages are to be taken 
					from the file EGA.CPI in the directory 
					\DOS.

  MODE CON CP SEL= 437			This example selects the code page 437
					to be the active code page. 437 must 
					have been PREPared by a previous MODE
					command.

  MODE LPT1: CP /STA			The active code page and a list of
					previously PREPared code pages for
					printer port 1 will be displayed.
