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From: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Changing number of screen lines
To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>,
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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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