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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!newsie.dmc.com!news.zipnet.net!usenet From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Change the text mode screen fonts Date: 2 May 1996 16:04:46 GMT Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4mameu$43v@news.zipnet.net> References: <4lg8fg$42f@news.hic.net> Reply-To: mi@ALDAN.algebra.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ip23-max1-bos.zipnet.net X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In-Reply-To: <4lg8fg$42f@news.hic.net> To: ctilbury@hic.net (Charles A. Tilbury) Honorable Charles A. Tilbury wrote on 22 Apr (in article <4lg8fg$42f@news.hic.net>): =Can anyone help me to change the text mode screen fonts? I have just =gotten a 17" monitor. Would like to set different font sizes on different =virtual screens. I would like to get a 60 line font. I know a 50 line =font is possable. mi@aldan:/tmp/tkrolo-1.000 (1017) man -k video cursor(1) - set cursor shape for the pcvt VT220 video driver ispcvt(8) - verify if current video driver is pcvt driver loadfont(1) - is used to load fonts into EGA or VGA boards for use by the 'pcvt' video driver meteor(4) - video capture driver scon(1) - controls screen modes for pcvt video driver vidcontrol(1) - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SuperProbe(1) - probe for and identify installed video hardware xvidtune(1) - video mode tuner for XFree86 -- "Windows for dummies"