Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!sbcs!kepler1!vipoon From: vipoon@kepler1.UUCP (Victor I Poon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl Subject: Re: APL Font for wyse 60 terminals Message-ID: <150@kepler1.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 22:02:54 GMT References: <148@kepler1.UUCP> <1070@levels.sait.edu.au> Reply-To: vipoon@kepler1.UUCP (Victor I Poon) Organization: Kepler Financial Mgmt, Setauket, NY Lines: 25 In article <1070@levels.sait.edu.au> ccdn@levels.sait.edu.au (DAVID NEWALL) writes: >How can you download a font into a wyse 50? > > In the Wyse 60, there is an escape sequence to define a character; it looks like the following: ESC c A kk pp bb bb ... bb ^Y ( 40 byte sequence ) where kk is the font bank ("00" - "03"), pp is the character position ("00" - "FF") bb is the character bit map for one line of pixels (in hex) I believe that it is the same for a Wyse 50. The only difference between the two terminals is that the Wyse 60 has a bunch of internal functions like a calculator, an alarm clock and an ASCII table. It's been a while since I've used one of these but I have a friend who has one and I'll probably find out from him if it's possible to do the same thing. Victor -- Victor I. Poon {acsm, lilink, polyof, sbcs}!kepler1!vipoon Kepler Financial Management, Ltd. vipoon@sbcs.sunysb.edu It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, ...