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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>
To:        robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing number of screen lines
Message-ID:  <20020805032510.10311.qmail@web20702.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020805024043.98078.qmail@web12902.mail.yahoo.com>

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vidcontrol should be able to do it for you.
You can read the man page. I for example, sets mine
with vidcontrol VGA_80x60. You can also set the
parameters in /etc/rc.conf with
allscreens_flags="VGA_80x60".

-ed

--- robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a way to change the number of lines the
> console displays - ie similar to the `mode 80'
> command
> in DOS? often I could use the extra lines, even if
> the
> screen is hard to read.
> 
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