more data on screen

[John covici]

You might try vga=15492 which is 132 by 60 or if your video card
won't take that try vga=15440 which is 60 by 80.

on Thursday 09/16/2004 Chuck Hallenbeck(chuckh at sent.com) wrote
 > This is a progress report that might encourage others to experiment:
 > 
 > I changed my lilo.conf to use the line
 > 
 > vga = 791
 > 
 > instead of
 > 
 > vga = normal
 > 
 > and then rebooted. I now have a 128 by 48 character display. When I
 > checked to see which applications were working correctly with the new
 > screen size, I found that lynx, pine, nano, mutella, less, and the man
 > pages, all were correctly resized to the new screen size. My text
 > reader, rita the reader, had to have its rita.cfg file changed to the
 > new screen parameters, but hey, that's a home made amateur program. So
 > far I see no down side to this new setup.
 > 
 > As for nano, I invoke it with a line length limit of 72 chars, so that
 > it wraps at that point, but without that command line option it too
 > would use the entire 128 char width. I will retain the 72 char width to
 > facilitate printing and emailing.
 > 
 > I am happy as a clam.
 > 
 > Chuck
 > 
 > 
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