From: mblain AT wizvax DOT net (Mark Blain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:39:44 GMT
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:55:52 +0100, Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
><Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990418134916 DOT 22615J-100000 AT is>
>
>[snip]
>
>>> 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. 
>
>Daniel Barker.

The windows dos box is a kluge, meant to assure compatibility with older
text-mode programs that make assumptions about the screen size instead of
checking it first.

For what it's worth, you can change the number of lines in the dos window
display in its Properties box under Screen, Initial Size.  You must then
exit and restart the dos window for the change to take effect, then you
fiddle with the font setting.  It does give you very limited scroll bars
but not a true scroll buffer.

Changing the number of columns can only be done in full-screen dos mode, by
changing the vga display mode.  There are any number of little standalone
programs to do this.