On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Nate Williams wrote:
> The most common case for a console is an 80 column wide console (this is
> the default for the virtual terminals, most printers, most text
> terminals, etc..)
> 
> Changing it is silly, and non-standard.

The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current
makes it easy to define the wrap point.  If some small number of people
want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its
unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader.

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