Re: How to increase the number of lines in the GNU command window?

[Quentin Spencer]

The Grumps wrote:
> Hi Quentin.  
>
> Yes I do want to increase the number of lines in the scrollback buffer for
> the terminal.  I am using cygwin and I can confirm that the terminal
> emulator is rxvt.   So your suggestion to set rxvt*saveLines should do it.
> However, I am too ignorant to follow your instructions to set this.  I don't
> have a .Xdefaults file already and I don't know which is the relevant home
> directory.   The most relevant directory I can find is:
>
> 	 C:\Program Files\GNU Octave 2.1.73\usr\share\terminfo 
>
> Can you please give me any further advice?
>   

This is probably better answered by someone who uses the cygwin version 
of octave regularly, but I'm guessing that you could find out the home 
directory using the "pwd" command inside octave when you start it up.

-Quentin