Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 09:14:14 +0000
From: iek@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Ian King)
To: aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: kbd 0.89, source of more fonts and cirrus logic mode database
Firstly thanks for the current (0.89?) kbd package. The resize
program is great especially when combined with the kernel patch
on sunsite that provides extra vga modes ;-) I enclose the saved mode
files I have generated for my generic cirrus logic card at the bottom
of this file (boy do they compress well 22k to 650bytes ;-) You
mentioned collecting a database of files for various cards in the
resize.c source code, feel free to include these as they take a while
to generate and save, esp when you include the kernel rebuild.
Obviously I cannot guarantee they will work, but they do for me. With
of course disclaimers about exploding monitors and VGA cards.
Secondly, something you could mention in the consolefonts documentation
is that 200 more fonts are available from any simtel mirror. The file
.../whatever_simtel20/screen/fntcol16.zip which contains hundreds of public
domain PC fonts all that work with setfont directly with no conversion
required (you can even make a VC look like a windowless mac ;-) The only
problem is that the /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts directory becomes a mess.
I have divided mine up into f16, f14, f12, ... f8 subdirectories to make
things easier. Fortunately all the files in fntcol16 have .f?? extensions
which makes things much easier.
Ian
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