Re: Off topic question.

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

 Just to bring this up to date:

 Robert mentions a file called FONTED30 in the message below. I
 would suggest that those amongst you who may be having problems
 with the full screen fonts, or who simply don't like the full
 screen font that you have, get this file. It offers a number of
 full screen fonts, some of which you will find unsuitable, but
 some are quite suitable, and indeed better than the standard full
 screen font. Moreover, if you want to go to the trouble of modi-
 fying a font that you like, that too can be done. I've not had
 the opportunity to test these on a XP system yet, because, at the
 moment, I don't have one available. But I see not reason why
 they would not work.

 By the way, it would be nice if there were an introductory text
 on fonts and font installation. Does someone know of such on the
 net?

 The other thing that interests me is: Does someone know the name
 of the font that is (was) used in the DOS window under Windows95,
 and can this font be transfered to XP? This is a font that I
 find particularly pleasing to the eye if one does a lot of writing.

 M.W. Poirier

 P.S.: Thank you Robert for drawing attention to FONTED30.ZIP.

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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Tue, 14
> Dec 2004 20:43:46 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Maben:
>
> > As you may have guessed by now, I'm more than a little
> > reluctant to run under XP for the very reasons that all
> > or almost all of you speak about on this list, namely,
> > one cannot run XY4 in a DOS window, which is rather
> > significant when one cannot get used to the fonts in
> > DOS full screen.
>
> You certainly *can* run Xy4 in a DOS window under XP. Count
> me out of the above-mentioned "all of you".
>
> People often mention Uwe Sieber's full screen fonts for CodePage 1252.
> They're lovely. His window fonts aren't bad either. There
> are also other fine 1252 fonts floating around (and at least four
> full screen 1252). Manuel Castelao wrote two windowed 1252 which
> are very nice ("almost full screen" at higher resolutions)
> -- they're available at XyWWWeb. Some of these options are
> referenced at HELP ANSI. But there are also MANY standard
> VGA full screen fonts, for both CP 437 and 850 and every other
> CodePage, e.g.:
>
> ftp://ftp.bu.edu/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/vga/fpman220.zip
>
> There's a truly massive package of them called FONTED30.ZIP -- I don't know
> where I got it, but it has fonts for every CodePage, and every flavor.
> In short, there are lots of VGA fonts out there, if you look hard; surely
> one will be pleasing. Search the Net for "dos vga fnt"
>
> > as you might
> > guess, I'm still running with Windows95. And so, if
> > I correctly understand you, a "thumb drive" is out of the
> > question for me at the moment
>
> Win95B OSR2 and Win95C both recognize USB
> devices (with an official M$ patch). There's a huge amount of
> info about this on the Net, e.g.:
>
>  http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#OSR2
>
> BTW, IBM2TIF is for inserting B&W images in text files.
> If anyone has ever done that, I don't know who s/he is.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
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