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- From: vdkamp@rullf2.leidenuniv.nl
- Subject: RE: COMPLETELY amazed! how is it done
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.101539.1@rullf2.leidenuniv.nl>
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- Organization: Leiden University, Medical Informatics
- References: <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:15:39 +0100
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- In article <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
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- [.... stuff deleted....]
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- > 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?
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- The EGA/VGA Character generator can display simultaniously 512 different
- characters on your screen.
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- Russian (Cyrillic fonts) people don't have a..zA..Z characters so they
- remap.
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- >
- > Thanks. I'll be able to sleep again when I know.
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- Sleep well....
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- Bob.
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