Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:51:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more rows on my console? Message-ID: <20010102095140.B4207@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010102152911.B27738@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from "j mckitrick" on Tue Jan 2 15:29:11 GMT 2001 References: <20001230202954.A5515@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001230153638.A1419@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20001231145932.B12295@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001231142541.B329@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010102151125.C27487@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010102102455.A43511@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010102152911.B27738@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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In the last episode (Jan 02), j mckitrick said: > Well, here is the deal. I like the console because it is faster, > cleaner looking, and simpler when I want to ssh to my shell account. > But when I run Xterm, I get such a difference in font size, it made > me wonder if there was a similar font for syscons. An xterm or wterm > running in X is more trouble to start, and for 'purists' it breaks > the rules anyway. :) But I can see a lot more text in mutt than I > can on an 80x30 syscon. Keep in mind that when you're on the console, you're limited to either 8x8, 8x14, or 8x16 character cell sizes, so you won't be able to get as much variety in your font sizes as you could in an xterm. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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