White screen & can't amend buffer size

[Igor Peshansky]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, gags_78 wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
>             I installed cygwin on my local machine there recently. before
> when I used cygwin I got the black screen with green cygwin icon that
> denoted it in the taskbar.
>
> Now I get the following.
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p11979162/cygwin.gif
>
> It also means that i can't amend the vertical screen buffer size so I
> only have about 300 lines.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get around this? It's a second hand machine
> here in work. I've re-installed cygwin twice now.

The icon says "rxvt".  Looking at the man page would be instructive.
	Igor
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