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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:36:47 -0300
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Daniel Barker wrote:
>
> > >> re-size the terminal window by dragging its edges.
> > >
> > >This is available with the Windows DOS box as well.
> >
> > Yes, but it changes the size of the font to match the size of the window.
> > The number of columns and rows seems to be unaffected. With xterm, the
> > font size stays constant and the number of rows and columns vary, which I
> > find more useful.
>
> Type "mode con lines=50" inside the DOS window, and you get the same
> effect, allbeit only for a certain number of supported screen sizes.

    I've made a small program that just changes the number of scan-lines used
per character in a text mode.  Using this you can get up to 100 rows in a
window (and you can change it while windowed, at least on most machines).  If
you then set the font to something reasonable, you can get ~50-70 lines of a
scroll-back buffer.  Some programs don't like it, some do.

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