Limit number of lines

I know how to limit the number of characters that a user can
input, but is there a way to limit the number of lines that a user
can input into a textbox.

Firstly thanks kglad and KnowMind for your responses.
Why I wanted this. I have a textfield that a user fills in.
This text is then displayed in another textfield that can't be
scrolled at a later point. Therefore I need to limit the number of
lines that they use when filling in the first textfield so that it
will be fully displayed in the later textfield.
knowmind, your code works, but doesn't do what I wanted. as
it increases the size of the textfield being filled out, rather
than limitting it.
kglad (as usual) you have done what I wanted, however if a
user tries to edit his work, eg, goes back to the top line and
clicks enter any line that goes over the height is lost and can't
be retrieved, which would be annoying. Therefore instead I am going
to use the following code:
commentTxt.maxChars=420;
remForcedLines = commentTxt.text.split("\r").join(" ");
It simply removes any forced lines that are in textfield 1.
Therefore as long as maxChars is under the maxchars in textfield 2,
it will display fully. Obviously this wouldn't be particularly
practicle for large textfields but as you can see it is only 420
chars long.
So thanks to both of you for your help. J.

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