This should show you 80 characters as the default for the PowerShell console. You would use this parameter to change it as well

This should show you 80 characters as the default for the PowerShell console. You

would use this parameter to change it as well ?

PS C:\> help out-file -parameter width

-Width

    Specifies the number of characters in each line of output. Any additional

    characters are truncated, not wrapped. If you omit this parameter, the width is

    determined by the characteristics of the host. The default for the Windows

    PowerShell console is 80 (characters).

    Required?                    false

    Position?                    named

    Default value                80

    Accept pipeline input?       false

    Accept wildcard characters?  false