Subj : Old Laptop Memory
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 08:59 am

  Re: Old Laptop Memory
  By: ROB MCCART to ANGUS MCLEOD on Thu Jul 28 2005 18:50:00

 > DM> > And are these console screen fonts loaded into the VGA adapter or what
 >   > > if your not under X, how are fonts event used?
 > 
 > AM>  SETFONT(8)            International Support            SETFONT(8)
 > 
 > AM>  NAME
 >   >       setfont - load EGA/VGA console screen font
 > 
 > AM>  SYNOPSIS
 >   >       setfont [-O font+umap.orig] [-o font.orig] [-om cmap.orig]
 >   >       [-ou umap.orig] [-N] [font.new ...]  [-m cmap]  [-u  umap]
 >   >       [-C console] [-hH] [-v] [-V]
 > 
 > AM>  DESCRIPTION
 >   >       The  setfont  command  reads a font from the file font.new
 >   >       and loads it into the  EGA/VGA  character  generator......
 > 
 > That sounds sort of kewl..
 > 
 > How many of those 'extra' parameters are usually required beyond
 > setfont font.new (if that's how it would be entered)  ?

The entire man-page is too long to display here, but this excerpt might 
give you an idea:

       Typical use:

       setfont
              Load a default font.

       setfont drdos8x16
              Load a given font (here the 448-glyph drdos  font).

       setfont cybercafe -u cybercafe
              Load  a given font that does not have a Unicode map
              and provide one explicitly.

       setfont LatArCyrHeb-19 -m 8859-2
              Load a given font (here a 512-glyph font  combining
              several  character  sets)  and  indicate that one's
              local character set is ISO 8859-2.

  OPTIONS
       -h H   Override font height.

       -m file
              Load console map or Unicode console map from  file.

       -o file
              Save previous font in file.

       -O file
              Save previous font and Unicode map in file.

       -om file
              Store console map in file.

       -ou file
              Save previous Unicode map in file.

       -u file
              Load Unicode table describing the font from file.

       -C console
              Set  the  font  for  the  indicated  console.  (May
              require root permissions.)

       -v     Be verbose.

       -V     Print version and exit.

If you need the full man-page, go here:

	http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?setfont+8



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