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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:23:33 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        scott@statsci.com
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, taob@io.org, jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cons25 being default terminal mode... Can that be changed?
Message-ID:  <199510190253.MAA13919@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <m0t5iNd-000r3sC@main.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Oct 18, 95 04:58:40 pm

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Scott Blachowicz stands accused of saying:
> Hmmm...how do you get it to default to 50 line mode? I thought it came up
> with 25 lines by default (so I've got this loop in my /etc/rc.local that
> goes thru my vt's setting them to 50 - there's gotta be an easier way -
> maybe the getty initialization process would send some magic strings from
> the termcap that would take care of it for me?). I'm fairly new to FreeBSD
> and have 2.0.5R installed.

You can do this a number of ways; one I used was to replace the call to
/usr/libexec/getty in /etc/tyys with one to a wrapper that set the video
modes and then exec'd getty.

> Scott Blachowicz    Ph: 206/283-8802x240    StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.

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