From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 09/29/92


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: 80x25 default terminal
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:51:28 GMT

Paul Douglas Page (pdp@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU) wrote:

: Is there a simple method of changing the default terminal set up that Linux uses from 80 x 25 to 80 x 24 ? I have had a lot of people call up with modem software that only supports 80 x 24. I seem to remember Linus mentioning this several
: weeks ago. Some sort of kernel patch I beleive.

Try changing the "li=" parameter in /etc/termcap from 25 to 24.

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