On 3/21/2013 12:36 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
On 3/20/2013 5:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
Broken (and quirky): it has an absurdly limited output buffer (under a
thousand lines)
People keep claiming that Windows CMD has a limited output buffer. It is
configurable, at least to 9999 lines, which is where I have mine set.
That is far too much to actually scroll back through for most practical
purposes, although sometimes I do :)
See my response to the same point by Neil Hodgson, where I noticed that
setting to 9999 lines somewhat disables easy scrolling. (I checked and
it was 9999 also on XP.)
I'm not trying to claim that Windows CMD is wonderful, perfect, or has
large numbers of redeeming values, but let's keep to the facts.
Yes, lets do. I tried to. A person who installs Python on Windows and
runs Python (command prompt) instead of IDLE is confronted with a 300
line default. Someone not familiar with Command Prompt will not know
that the limit can be increased. I use CP so seldom, until recently,
that I had forgotten how to do so. I fiddled with the history buffer
setting on the first page. That did not work so I gave up.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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