why Unix?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:39:03 -0400, Jussi Jumppanen wrote:

> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> The GUI is better than that of cmd.exe, but not anywhere near as good
>> as, say, GNOME Terminal. (It's still fixed width, as I recall; just
>> wider by default.)
> 
> The cmd.exe terminal window can be resized.
> 
> With the cmd.exe window visible click on the icon in the top left corner
> and bring up the Properties window.
> 
> Select the Layout panel and change the terminal size to what ever
> width/height combination required and save the changes against the title
> of the console window.
> 
> From then on all new console windows with that title will take on those
> attributes.
> 
> On a new machine this is usually on of the first things I do, since the
> default properties are pretty poor.

In his previous post he specifically talked about resizing with the 
mouse, which I believe was to carry over into the last one. In any case, 
going to the settings to resize the window is troubling if it is 
something commonly done. (may not be for you, but others do)