I know you can do right click properties ->layout and there change it manually.
But how would you go about changing it from a Windows batch script?
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There is no "DOS command prompt". DOS fully died with Windows ME (7/11/2006). It's simply called the Command Prompt on Windows NT (which is NT, 2K, XP, Vista, 7).
There is no way to alter the screen buffer through built-in cmd.exe commands. It can be altered through Console API Functions, so you might be able to create a utility to modify it. I've never tried this myself.
Another suggestion would be to redirect output to both a file and to the screen so that you have a "hard copy" of it. Windows does not have a TEE command like Unix, but someone has remedied that.