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- From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
- Subject: Re: Getting the old IBM character set back (How to?)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:34:07 GMT
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- rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
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- >I'd like to be able to use the *old* default character set on my PC, the
- >one with graphics characters and the like, instead of Latin-1. How do I
- >get it back (without reverting to <ugh> DOS)?
-
- >For that matter, how would I go about making my *own* character sets?
-
- Yeah, is there any way of getting Linux to use vga fonts ?
- It'd be real nice...(does vgalib support the font calls ? I haven't
- had a good look at it yet...)
-
- Enjoy !
-
- Cos !
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- Andrew J. Cosgriff ! ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
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