Setting linesize in SQL Plus

Hi buddies;
This is my 'special' situation with SQL Plus, when I seted a linesize to any value greater than 80, I cann't scroll to see the information displayed at the right. What can I do, to solve this problem. By the way, the scroll buttom appears and I can move it to the right, however the screen stay fixed. Any idea how to solve this problem.
Thanks for your help.
ANG

What works for me is:
from the menu click: Options > Environment and set Buffer Width to 1000.
"Use the Buffer Width text box to set the number of characters available to display on one line. The Buffer Width value must be at least as big as the LINESIZE value. Buffer Width has a default value of 100, a minimum value of 80, and a maximum value of 32,767 characters."
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch1.htm#sthref154
Edited by: hoek on Nov 20, 2009 4:05 PM yal

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