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An excerpt from the MODE command's on-line help reads as
follows:

Display mode: MODE CON[:] [COLS=c] [LINES=n]


Does anyone know what the lowest and highest number of
rows and columns that can be assigned?
 
In message <[email protected]> of Sat, 2 Aug 2003
19:53:04 in microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin, Barney
An excerpt from the MODE command's on-line help reads as
follows:

Display mode: MODE CON[:] [COLS=c] [LINES=n]


Does anyone know what the lowest and highest number of
rows and columns that can be assigned?
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I could tell you the answer. It seems better to tell you how to find
out. Start with a huge number which gives you a failure.
Half the proposed number until you get a success.
set difference to half the current number.
add the difference to the current number.
repeat:
try again.
half the difference.
end if difference is zero.
add the difference if previous result OK
subtract the difference if previous result US.

1048576 is a nice large number which produces a failure with mode con
lines=1048576.
 
Walter said:
In message <[email protected]> of Sat, 2 Aug 2003
19:53:04 in microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin, Barney
An excerpt from the MODE command's on-line help reads as
follows:

Display mode: MODE CON[:] [COLS=c] [LINES=n]


Does anyone know what the lowest and highest number of
rows and columns that can be assigned?
Click to expand...


I could tell you the answer. It seems better to tell you how to find
out. Start with a huge number which gives you a failure.
Half the proposed number until you get a success.
set difference to half the current number.
add the difference to the current number.
repeat:
try again.
half the difference.
end if difference is zero.
add the difference if previous result OK
subtract the difference if previous result US.

1048576 is a nice large number which produces a failure with mode con
lines=1048576.
Click to expand...

Then of course there is always the question of *useful* values. A font
small enough to allow the display of, say, 500 characters (cols=500) on
a single line is probably not readable for most people. So what does it
matter if the maximum 'legal' value for 'cols' is 32767?
 
Legible or otherwise, it does create an extremely wide *scrolling* shell
which may be useful to some ... can't really imagine for what but who am
I to ask why? :)

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Phil Robyn said:
Walter said:
In message <[email protected]> of Sat, 2 Aug 2003
19:53:04 in microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin, Barney
An excerpt from the MODE command's on-line help reads as
follows:

Display mode: MODE CON[:] [COLS=c] [LINES=n]


Does anyone know what the lowest and highest number of
rows and columns that can be assigned?
Click to expand...


I could tell you the answer. It seems better to tell you how to find
out. Start with a huge number which gives you a failure.
Half the proposed number until you get a success.
set difference to half the current number.
add the difference to the current number.
repeat:
try again.
half the difference.
end if difference is zero.
add the difference if previous result OK
subtract the difference if previous result US.

1048576 is a nice large number which produces a failure with mode con
lines=1048576.
Click to expand...

Then of course there is always the question of *useful* values. A font
small enough to allow the display of, say, 500 characters (cols=500) on
a single line is probably not readable for most people. So what does it
matter if the maximum 'legal' value for 'cols' is 32767?

--
Phil Robyn
Univ. of California, Berkeley

u n z i p m y a d d r e s s t o s e n d e - m a i l
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