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From: eaeg015@orion.oac.uci.edu (David Lawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Font generators for Wyse and VT200 terminals
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Date: 24 Jul 90 08:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer)
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Keywords:terminal font generators , VT200, Wyse, Russian font



I have written a couple of programs in C to generate softfonts which can
be downloaded into Wyse and/or VT200 terminals.  You first create a
drawing of the characters with the * symbol representing a pixel.
*****	This example is unusually small (only 5x5) and a typical cheap
*....	terminal will use 7x12 characters.  Next you run my font generator	
*****	on your characters and obtain the softfont code to download to a
*....	terminal.  The font will then display on the crt.  You will
*****	probably need to write a shell script to set up your terminal 
correctly, load the font into the appropriate bank, etc.

I have only used these programs for a Wyse99GT terminal but one of them
should work on a Wyse 60 and the other should work on most of the many
terminals which have a VT200 or VT220 mode of operation.  I have used these
for Cyrillic font (Russian) and have a pattern file for this font. 
This is the first release of them and they haven't been used or tested
much.  These programs should be in a TermFonts directory for ftp from 
ics.uci.edu.
				Dave Lawyer