Re: Subject: Re: Off topic question.

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I can''t say whether these fonts can be transferred to XP, but
 if I other others discover that they can, then this may consti-
 tute the solution to most of my objections to XP. At the moment,
 I'm toying with the Courier font from the file FONTED30. It is
 proving to be an interesting font, although it needs a few minor
 changes, which I should be able to make over the course of the
 next few days. Now, if only I had a XP machine available to
 test this out after I've made the changes. If I can get a DOS
 window in XP, similar to the one from Windows95, which is almost
 full screen, but for the tool bar at the top and bottom, then
 I'll have addressed most of my objections to XP. I also think
 it might be worth discovering whether the Windows95 fonts you
 mention can be tranbsferred to XP. That would give us another
 tool in our tool-kit.

 Many thanks for this information.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> M.W. Poirier wrote,
> ≪Does someone know the name of the font that is (was) used in the DOS
> window under Windows95,?≫
>
> According to a book I have here (Windows 95 Secrets, by
> Linvingston & Straub) the DOS fonts used in Windowed DOS sessions are
> stored in the files Vgaoem.fon (or 8514oem.fon), Dosapp.fon, and
> Courier.ttf; the Microsoft Plus! (M$'s punctuation) included a Lucida
> Console TT to take the place of Courier.ttf. The individual files contain
> more than one font each, says the book: the DOSApp.fon file contains 8
> fonts. There's a lot more in the book. I can try scanning and OCRing the
> pages (2 or 3) and sending them, or I could photocopy and snail mail. Is
> this of interest to others or should we take it offlist? As I have three
> systems running 95, I must have them there, if you need copies. I have no
> idea whether one could transfer them to XP. One should be able to install
> the TrueType one, either Courier or Lucida Console, but whether XP would
> use it in DOS sessions is another matter.
>
> Hmm, I just looked for *.fon on my 98 SE system and found a whole
> addtional set in the Win98 Resource Kit folder, keyed to codepages. Those
> 95 fonts use the original IBM PC-8 character set (again per the book).
>
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PMGodfrey@xxxxxxxx
>
>