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- From: noesis@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Kyle Anthony York)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: COMPLETELY amazed! How is it done?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:19:03 GMT
- References: <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <C16zAy.KIz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
- >I thought I knew a thing or two about how VGA fonts work on the IBM
- ...
- >
- >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.
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- you can load a seconds 256 character font using the various BIOS load font
- functions, then change bit 7 of the attribute from the standard
- 'blink' to 'use alternate font'. sorry this is so vague, i haven't done it
- for several years (since EGA). if you need more specifics let me know
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- --kyle
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