23.0.60; Font too big

[jpff]

I rebuilt last night and now the characters ar so large that a wondow
does not fit the screen.  Does not seem to matter what font I asked
for on teh command line; it is large.  How should I control the font?
I have been using
-fn "-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--*-140-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1" -geometry 84x45+64+1
for a long time


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.24 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2008-03-08 on cardew
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70200000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
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  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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  display-time-mode: t
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  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
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==John ffitch