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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
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Subject: Re: Printing small characters.
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Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 22:21:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 13 22:21:48 1987
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In article <1483@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rgoodman@cit-vax.UUCP
(Ron Carl Goodman) asks how to access the 6x6 font used in
icons.   I would suspect that you could use the vst_font()
call to select the font (sorry, I don't know its index), and
then v_gtext() to output text.  I haven't tried this, though.
If I did, I would try fonts 1, 2, 3 to see if any do anything
interesting.

What you *can't* do is to "convince" the bios that you are using
the 6x6 font with low-level text output (Cconws()).  The bit
banger that puts the font characters into the screen area "knows"
that fonts are 8 bits wide.  A week or so ago, I posted code that
will force the bios to use a home-made font as the "system" font.
See that posting for the gory details.

Martin Minow
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