[arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size

[Jude DaShiell]

I thought that was rows and cols for the variable names to do this, but 
could be wrong.

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017, Storm Dragon via arch-general wrote:

> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:14:10
> From: Storm Dragon via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: Arch Linux General <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> Cc: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [arch-general] Increase console size regardless of screen size
> 
> Howdy,
> I am blind, and don't even have a screen connected to this computer. For some 
> reason, my console size is 30 lines and 80 columns. I've not seen this small 
> of a console before. they usually have 50+ lines and over 100 columns.
>
> I have searched for quite a while, but not found anything about increasing 
> the console size. I did find a python script that will set the screen to the 
> actual size, but it returns 30 80 as well, so no luck there either. One site 
> said you  could just export the lines and columns you want, but that failed, 
> even though the variables were set correctly.
>
> Is there any way to set the lines and columns regardless of the size your 
> computer believes the screen to be?
> Thanks for any help,
> Storm
>

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