RE: Amazing Discovery (to me)

[Peter Knupfer pknupfer@xxxxxxxx]

I tried the oemfonts too, and they worked well for a couple of days. Then,
for some reason, the XW docs I pulled up in draft mode would be part new
oemfon and part old oemfon. I reloaded the fonts and rebooted, but no
avail. For instance, the new terminal font works in italic, but the MDNM
would revert to the old.

Any suggestions?

Peter Knupfer
Kansas State Univ.

At 06:42 PM 3/15/96 EST, you wrote:
>Douglas Beeson:
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>These OEM "Terminal" fonts (in WOAFON14.ZIP) are a gas. Truly an amazing
>discovery by you. The more amazing because it seems like such a needle in a
>haystack: I ploughed through most of the MSWindows fonts at a mirror site
>of ftp.cica.indiana.edu about 15 months ago, and I found nothing. Other
>purported "MS-DOS under Windows" fonts simply don't work. There is
>something peculiar about the header for these bitmapped fonts that makes
>them different -- I suspect it wouldn't be hard to figure it all out;
>it must be documented somewhere, and then you could probably adapt a
>lot of existing screen fonts to the format; but I thought it was
>interesting, and an acknowledgment of the oddity of these things, that
>the author of the WOAFON14 fonts (a well-known Windows wonk) says
>he copied the header from IBM's 8514OEM.FON. That means it ain't
>obvious.
>
>Apart from VGAOEM.FON (and 8514OEM.FON, of course), I know of one other
>Terminal font that works. It's IBM's 8515OEM.FON, which I acquired several
>years ago as part of XGAWIN21.ZIP, and is in a lot of repositories. This
>is a BIG font, for people with glasses I guess... bigger than anything in
>WOAFON14. To give you an idea, an 80 column width just about fills up the
>screen in XyWin. I kinda like it. My eyes are really deteriorating.
>
>You would suppose, with the OEM appellation, that every video board
>manufacturer supplies their own Terminal fonts. But I think its not
>the case. I logged on to a couple of boards yesterday -- ATI, Matrox --
>and nada. Anybody who has a likely-looking *OEM.FON font on disk should
>try it out!
>
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>Robert Holmgren
>holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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