screen size on Windows Vista

[Keith Roberts]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> To: mc at gnome.org
> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: screen size on Windows Vista
> 
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:43 AM,  <keith at karsites.net> wrote:
>> I have downloaded the Windows 32 bit executable for Midnight Commander, and
>> have installed it on my Vista laptop. I need to ftp from my Vista laptop,
>> into my main machine running Centos 5.6.
>
> More recent MC builds are available in Cygwin, at least 4.6.1 is on my
> Windows machine right now.
>
>> There appears to be a problem with the size of the mc gui. I cannot drag the
>> corner and resize it to a usable size. It's only about 3.5" wide, by 3"
>> tall.
>
> Windows cmd.exe is not ordinarily resizable by dragging the edges.
>
>> Is there any way to make the mc screen larger on Windows Vista please, so I
>> can actually see what I'm doing!
>
> Use the DOS "mode" command to set the screen size before you run MC. I
> use "mode 132,60" to get a nice big window.
>
>> NB This was sent from my web hosters webmail interface, as my ISP's smtp
>> server is being blocked by the gnome spam filtering tool :(
>
> UCEPROTECT is generally considered to be an extortion scheme. They
> block you and want money to be removed from their list. I'm amazed
> anyone is actually using them to block e-mail.
>
> Good luck :)

Thanks for your reply Paul.

I'm looking at different ways of getting my email out from 
my machine, possibly via my web hosting service SMTP, or 
even running my own SMTP server for sending my email from.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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