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drodinthe559 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Perl Monks - How do you change the size of the console window when running a perl script on a Windows 2000 station. Below is a snippet of the code that I'm trying to use.

use Win32::Console;

my $console = Win32::Console->Size(500,180,300);
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Re: Console Window by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 30, 2008 at 00:05 UTC
`use warnings; use Win32::Console; $console = Win32::Console->new(); $console->Alloc(); die "Can't Alloc()" if !$console; $console->Size(500, 180, 300); $console->Write('abcdef' x 80); $console->Display(); sleep 5; # After 5 seconds program stops, console vanishes` [download] What does the 3rd argument to Size() do ? I couldn't find any documentation for it. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Console Window by massa (Hermit) on Jul 30, 2008 at 00:13 UTC
IIRC the number of lines of the scroll buffer, but I can very well be completely wrong. []s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)	[reply]
Re: Console Window by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2008 at 00:10 UTC
The simplest way to change the size of the current console window is: `system "mode con cols=200 lines=90";` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Console Window by pc88mxer (Vicar) on Jul 29, 2008 at 22:21 UTC
Don't know if this will work for you, but you can check out `Win32::Console::ANSI` which has a `SetConsoleSize()` method.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Console Window by drodinthe559 (Monk) on Jul 29, 2008 at 23:00 UTC
Is there a better way to do that?	[reply]