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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> Day Brown wrote:
> >
> > does that mean that a program can stipulate what
> > the numbers of lines and columns should be? or is
> > that still something that only root can do?
> 
> To set the number of lines/columns, add vga=ask to
> the loadlin line in BOOT.BAT.
That makes sense, but can you distribute a program in Linux
which will do that for the *user*, or does he havta be root?