How wmic enable horizontal scaling on command prompt window

Question

When open command prompt window. I found black fixed size windows that can scaling only vertical direction, but when i type wmic command it seem horizontal scaling also available. I just suspect what method that wmic force command prompt windows like that. Does one can explain?

Answer 1

A console program can change the size of the screen buffer (You can also have more than one screen buffer, but only one can be visible)

See SetConsoleScreenBufferSize()