From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 11:54:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AE1106564A for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:54:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [62.49.197.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB548FC15 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AA49334D461; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:54:24 +0000 (GMT) From: David Southwell Organization: Voice & Vision To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:54:24 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.2-RELEASE-p3; KDE/4.5.3; amd64; ; ) X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201011091154.24537.david@vizion2000.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: text wrapping console type size etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:54:27 -0000 Hi How can one control output to the console. Using a console window on an X windows system with kde4 I find the output limited to a line of 179 chars which can be really inconvenient. Even when, for example: # ps -aux >myfile any chars beyond an apparent column limit of 179 are dropped and not transferred to the file. How is the chars per line limit altered? How does one enable console windows to wrap lines? How does one increase decrease type size for consoles? Thanks in advance david Photographic Artist Permanent Installations & Design Creative Imagery and Advanced Digital Techniques High Dynamic Range Photography & Official Portraiture Combined darkroom & digital creations & Systems Adminstrator for the vizion2000.net network