38 lines
714 B
Groff
38 lines
714 B
Groff
.TH LOADFONT 1
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.SH NAME
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loadfont \- load a font into the video card
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBloadfont \fIfontfile\fR
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.br
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.de FL
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.TP
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\\fB\\$1\\fR
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\\$2
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..
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.de EX
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.TP 20
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\\fB\\$1\\fR
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# \\$2
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..
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.EX "loadfont iso1.fnt" "Loads the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) font"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.I Loadfont
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loads a custom font into the video card (EGA or VGA). The font character
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size has to be 8x16 pixels and the font file must contain 256 characters for
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a total size of 4 kilobytes.
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.PP
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.I Loadfont
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together with
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.I loadkeys
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allow the console and keyboard to be customized to national conventions.
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.PP
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If it exists, the file
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.I /etc/font
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is loaded as a custom font by
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.B /usr/etc/rc
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at boot time.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR console (4).
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