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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Dos Window Fonts
Message-ID: <5279@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 90 00:32:17 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.211431.21683@athena.mit.edu> mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) writes:
>WRT changing fonts in a DOS window by changing the CGA40W0A.FON = ...
>and other lines, I tried this once and it didn't work. I tried replacing it
>with other fixed fonts from the fonts.lzh file downloaded from cica. On
>closer inspection, I see that the default files CGA40W0A.fon etc. are only
>about 5K long, while those in fonts.lzh are all about 50-60K long. So there
>seems to be two different types of fonts...
>
>Anyone succeed in doing this?

Yes, I have.  First note that the fonts you use *must* be fixed (not
proportional) space fonts.  Also, even if you change the fonts it often
loads the old ones anyway.  (You can try moving ?GA?0WOA.FON somewhere
where Windows can't find it, and see if it asks for it when you run a
DOS session.  Then you'll know if it's even trying to use your new
fonts.)

For a while I used the courier font.  (It automatically uses the smallest
font in a file containing more than one, but it was still bigger than the
one in EGA80WOA, so I was happy.)  Now I've changed *all* of them to
HERCWOA.FON, which means that when I go into a fifty-line window (which
I do often for editing) I don't get that tiny squished-up font.

Good luck!  This is one of the more finicky sections of Windows.  (And don't
ask MS Tech Support about it... they don't know either.)

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me."
							- Dr. Who, _Shada_
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