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From: danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Opening a stream to nil files
Summary: font format changing?
Message-ID: <693@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 89 22:47:08 GMT
References: <8906211239.AA02260@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <8906211239.AA02260@umix.cc.umich.edu>, FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM writes:
> Fonts are 'nil' files, and I had always hoped that Apollo would provide a
> set of system calls for working with fonts. Edfont is nice, but for
> translating non-apollo fonts to apollo format would take a year by hand.

We make protocol testers which must be able to display many different
character sets (ASCII, EBCDIC, JIS, T.61 etc) on our custom display hardware.

To speed our development, we used EDFONT to input and edit the fonts
in a 10x12 envelope. Once perfect, I wrote a program which reads
the font file (using ms_$mapl) and outputs data which goes to a
EPROM programmer. It is quite handy.

I got this format from a _very_ old Apollo technical bulletin. However,
recently I heard that SR10 uses a new format... Is this true?

Will my program still work? Any comments out there?

-- 
Danny Wilson
IDACOM Electronics		danny@idacom.uucp
Edmonton, Alberta		alberta!idacom!danny
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