From:	"Michael Stewart" <mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: text VGA mode
Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:16:34 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Stewart wrote:
>
>> The _set_screen_lines (int nlines) function offers more modes (80 columns
>> with 25, 28, 35, 40, 43 or 50 rows)
>
>Nitpicking: _set_screen_lines doesn't change the video mode, it just
>reprograms the controller to display the number of scan lines as needed,
>and loads a different font if that is required.  The video mode stays
>the same.

The libc reference doesn't mention that (nor does it actually mention
changing modes).

If you want more columns then I think there are some VESA modes which have
more.

Mike

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