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PC FONTS FOR MS-DOS KERMIT
This directory contains public domain "fonts" that are equivalent to the code
pages used by IBM and compatible PCs (with 256K EGA or better), but which can
be loaded any time you want, without having to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and
reboot your PC. These fonts, and the accompanying utility programs, are from
Joseph (Yossi) Gil (Yogi) at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, host
ssl.cs.technion.ac.il, directory /pub/DOS/Yogi. Many others are also
available from the same source.
This directory contains the following font utilities:
LOADFONT.COM, LOADFONT.HLP
The utility that loads a font.
WITHFONT.COM
TSR that loads a font and runs a program in such a way that the program
will use the font, even if the video mode changes (e.g. between 80 and
132 columns).
CHARSET.COM
A utility that displays all the characters in the current font.
The following fonts are included. The filetype (.F16 or .F08) tells how many
vertical dots the font contains. The .F16 files are suitable for the normal
25-row by 80-column screen, and the .F08 files are suitable for most of the
larger screen dimensions, such as 53x80.
CP437.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 437, the default (hardware) code page on all PCs.
CP850.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 850, the "multilingual code page" that can
represent most Western European languages.
CP852.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 852, for Eastern European languages that are
written in the Roman Alphabet.
CP861.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 861, Icelandic. CP850 can also be used for
Icelandic, but CP861 predates CP850 and is still in wide use in Iceland.
CP862.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 862, containing the Hebrew alphabet, used by
Kermit's Hebrew support (see the HEBREW subdirectory).
CP866.F16 and .F08
A font for IBM Code Page 866, containing the Cyrillic alphabet, used by
Kermit's Cyrillic support (see the CYRILLIC subdirectory).
SCRAWL.F16
Just for fun :-)
The standard MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 MSKERMIT.INI file includes the following
macros that load the .F16 versions of these fonts:
AFONT - Default (CP437)
CFONT - Cyrillic
EFONT - East European
HFONT - Hebrew
IFONT - Icelandic (CP861)
MFONT - Mutlilingual (West European)
SCRAWL - ???
The CHARSET macro runs the CHARSET program.
These macro names can be given as commands at the MS-Kermit> prompt if you
have installed MS-DOS Kermit in the normal way. If you are not using a long
screen length, like 43 or 55 lines, you will have to modify the macros to use
the .F08 fonts instead of the .F16 ones. If you will be switching between
80 and 132 columns, you should start Kermit like this:
c:\kermit\pcfonts\withfont c:\kermit\pcfonts\cpxxx.f16 kermit
(where xxx is the code page number) or, equivalently:
c:
cd \kermit\pcfonts
withfont cpxxx kermit
Other fonts and sizes are available from the Technion FTP site.
(End of PCFONTS\READ.ME)