Windows 7 – Can You Dynamically Resize Command Line Window?

Resizing under the properties dialog should work (ensure you are resizing the width and buffer size, resizing the window alone should also increase the buffer), but if it doesn't work you could always:

• Redirect the output to a file:

  program.exe > C:\path\to\file.txt
  

• Check out Console2

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 more than 80 characters wide.

You can change the size of the buffer on XP by going to the system menu > Properties > Layout tab > Screen Buffer Size. I usually leave mine set at 500x999 because I hate the default line wrapping (I prefer scrolling). A side effect of this is that you can now maximize the window to the full screen size.