nConsoleMaxChars

jimspoon · Post by **jimspoon** » 2004 Feb 13, 23:01

I noticed that a long output from a command was getting truncated. I changed nConsoleMaxChars, I forgot what the default was ... around 32K I think. I just changed it to 256K - 4000 hex. Will that have any adverse effects?

jimspoon · Post by **jimspoon** » 2004 Feb 14, 05:04

Console2 could make a very nice standalone app. Particularly if Windows could be configured to use it as the default command line shell.

I can't figure out why we are running commands in a 25x80 character mode DOS box. It seems like using EDLIN to edit text files.

I have an idea that it would be useful for a console to save both command lines and the output from those commands, and to make both easy to retrieve.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Feb 15, 11:35

you can set nConsoleMaxChars as high as you fancy, but it will start eating up your memory if one console window stays open for long. You can clear the window at any time hitting ctrl+A and Del

the console commands are not saved because those issued from x2 in the first place are