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Why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size?

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Mar 15, 202616253 views
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Anyone know why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size? To the best of my knowledge, even in the new Windows 7 the command prompt window(cmd.exe) doesn't maximize to the full screen size like all other windows. This behavior is quite annoying for me, and I'm sure…

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Fix for: Why doesn't the Windows command prompt window maximize to the full screen size?

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By default, each line of the command prompt's buffer is only 80 characters wide. If a program produces an output line of more than 80 characters, it is split into multiple lines of the buffer, so there's no point to having a command prompt window mo…

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