Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/07/23/01:11:15
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Jason Green wrote:
> > I switch back to 80x25 or 80x50 on close; it doesn't matter.
>
> Ahem, it matters very much if you want to work in DOS with more than
> 50 lines. I'm not suggesting that 3-pixel chars would be of any use;
> just curious as to how the command line behaves.
>
> The Linux console can be switched to 80x60 with standard VGA. So I am
> suggesting that we could do this too, assuming command.com doesn't get
> upset by more than 50 lines.
I think versions of COMMAND.COM from DOS 5.0 and later all honor the
number of screen lines as it is known to BIOS. If you can switch into
80x60 in a way that causes the BIOS to know you have 60 lines,
COMMAND.COM will DTRT.
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