Dear Edward I use 43 lines and 80 columns all the time. I have: LINS=43 CoLS-80in config.txt, and no line and column setting in STARTUP.INT. However I do use a line (the edited out line tells me what it is there for);
;*; Setup for ruler and no windows borders BC ’ window 1,0,0,80,40I an not sure how I arrived at this particular formulation, probably a matter of trail and error. Anyway, this gives me 80 lines in the editing window with no window border and no ruler just a line. Oddly, if I change the setting in config.txt to:
LINS=35it still seems to work correctly with a 32 line editing window. And to get 90 columns I just placed:
COLS=90 in config.txt, and: BC window 1,0,0,90,40 in STARTUP.INT. That seems to work for me. Perhaps it will for you. Best wishes Paul On 28/12/2020 16:27, Edward Mendelson wrote: Karl, thank you for this. I'm afraid I can't make this work. In vDosPlus-Xy, I've changed config.txt to use LINES=43, and vDosPlus opens, correctly in a 43-line window. In startup.int I have these lines (BX and Q2 and FF are function codes, of course) BX LOAD C:\XY4\SETTINGS.DFLQ2 FF ;*; <return> BX DEFAULT SL=43Q2 ;*;<return> and in in settings.dfl I have near the top df sw=80<return> df sl=43<return> And I have checked that there are NO other instances of sw or sl in either file. I still startup with a 25-line Xy screen in a 43-line vDosPlus window. If any generous soul can explain what I'm doing wrong, or even send me a simple startup.int or settings.dfl file or both that will open a 43-line screen, I'll be very grateful.