lines rows and columns used for display lines(nl) lines(nl, nc) lines(ncl) ncl = lines() nl An integer, the number of lines for vertical paging control. If 0: no vertical paging control is done. If -1: reset vertical paging control to current size of the window. nc An integer, the number of column of output. Used for formatting output ncl A 1x2 vector [nc, nl] lines handles Scilab display paging. lines() returns the vector [# columns, # rows] currently used by Scilab for displaying the results. lines(nl) sets the number of displayed lines (before user is asked for more) to nl. lines(0) disables vertical paging. lines(nl,nc) and lines([nc,nl]) changes also the size of the output to nc columns. When Scilab is launched without -nw option, the lines parameters are automatically set according to the output window size, these parameters are also automatically modified when the window is resized. disp print 5.4.0 lines is set by default to 0. Argument -1 added. See SEP #67 for more information. lines manages a 1x2 vector [nc, nl] as input argument