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Yes. If you don't specify a width for the form the compiler calculates the form's width based on its contents. If your terminal is 132 columns wide the compiler will use up to 132 columns to lay out the form. It only uses as many columns as necessary so the form's width may be less than 132 columns, but not more. In batch mode there's a bug which limits the form's width to 80 columns regardless of the width of the terminal. It's fixed in recent versions but you have to opt in to the fix using the -batchwidth startup parameter to specify the number of columns to use in batch mode.

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