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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Getting the old IBM character set back (How to?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155020.1359@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:50:20 GMT
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- In article <ins217t.722144047@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- >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...)
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- Yes. Use my codepage patches (codepage.tar.Z somewhere on tsx).
- Included are vga fonts for Hebrew and Cyrilic. To use the fonts with
- emacs, you'll have to use an 8-bit clear version. Patches for such
- against 18.58 are also floating around.
-
- -Joel
- (joel@wam.umd.edu)
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