>You have to load the fonts, change the cursor size and tell scon to use
>that mode.  Here is a little script I wrote to toggle 50 line mode:

yes, i see that now.  i was confused because i already *had* a 50 line
font on the screen.  now, if someone could only explain to me the
reason for having eight font slots under vga but only four possible
line counts...  maybe i need to hack on pcvt and scon so that i can
pick a fontslot to display, and then maybe also add something so i can
set the typematic rate and delay...

>loadfont -c 1 -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.808
>lines=`scon | grep "^Lines" | sed 's/^.*= //'`
>if [ "$lines" -eq 50 ]; then   
>        scon -s 25
>        cursor -s 14 -e 15
>else
>        scon -s 50
>        cursor -s 6 -e 7
>fi

i, on the other hand, have this one.

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
	25)
		loadfont -c 0 -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.816 ;
		scon -s 25 ;
		cursor -s 14 -e 15 ;;
	28)
		loadfont -c 1 -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.814 ;
		scon -s 28 ;
		cursor -s 12 -e 13 ;;
	40)
		loadfont -c 2 -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.810 ;
		scon -s 40 ;
		cursor -s 8 -e 9 ;;
	50)
		loadfont -c 3 -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.808 ;
		scon -s 50 ;
		cursor -s 6 -e 7 ;;
	*)
		echo "what?" ;;
esac

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