Re: asking for guidance on length of line in terminal

Samuel, thanks to you and the others who have responded.  I don't know 
what I'll do yet, but the pointers have helped.

Al

On 03/18/2017 05:02 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Al Sten-Clanton, on ven. 17 mars 2017 22:25:48 -0400, wrote:
>> I'm virtually certain those are the settings from installing; I'm
>> using Debian Jesse.  When I ran "stty sane", the settings stayed the
>> same.
>
> You can use e.g. "stty cols 80 rows 25" to change the number of lines &
> cols. It will prevent you from exceeding what is possible with the
> screen resolution.
>
>> I'd like to have a high number of lines,
>
> You can change the font to achieve this.
>
> Now, in Debian, both can be configured in /etc/default/console-setup,
> see "man 5 console-setup"
>
> Samuel
>
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