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- From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
- Subject: COMPLETELY amazed! How is it done?
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- Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:56:57 GMT
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- I thought I knew a thing or two about how VGA fonts work on the IBM
- PC...
-
- Then I happened to invoke a little programmer's tsr while in WordPerfect
- 5.1 . All the letters that the tsr used were strange greek, foreign,
- etc, symbols. (This is while the prefectly normal charscters show on
- the screen.)
-
- I know how to change a font, but how do you make more than 256
- different chars appear on the screen? And why would WordPerfect remap
- the normal a..zA..Z to something else?
-
- Thanks. I'll be able to sleep again when I know.
-
- -alan
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