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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > It is always 80x25 chars, but changing font sizes also changes the    
   > defaul window size. [...] As it is now, whether I use mode from a cmd    
   > prompt or in the parameters field of properties, Z! comes up in the    
   > default window size, not in the changed by mode size or shift+ drag    
   > method of resizing.   
   >   
      
   You're conflating two separate things, things that Windows NT makes    
   mildly clearer as a matter of fact.  So here it is in Windows NT terms.     
   There's the console *buffer* size, which is the size of the character    
   cell array, and the console *window* size, which is the size of the view    
   onto that character cell array, which is as presented in a GUI window or    
   in full screen mode.  IBM OS/2 makes it almost impossible to manipulate    
   the console window size other than (a) by explicitly using the frame    
   window widgets to resize the window, or (b) as a side-effect of    
   manipulating the console buffer size.  In particular for (b) the window    
   size is forced to be no larger than the size that is necessary for    
   displaying the entire console buffer.  So if a program such as your TUI    
   MP3 player resizes the console *buffer*, and forces it to 80 columns by    
   25 rows from a larger size, the console *window* is automatically shrunk    
   to fit according to what 80 by 25 cells in the current font happens to    
   amount to.  (This is not an unusual thing for TUI programs to do.  I own    
   several that shrink or set the console buffer size when they start up.     
   It's thus quite likely that your MP3 program is doing that.)   
      
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